The mid-market firm’s debut $620m fund is now 60 percent invested following the purchase of ArrMaz Custom Chemicals, which has now had three alternative investment fund sponsors.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
The $234.2bn pension is mulling a possible change to its private equity allocation, as the twin forces of sinking assets under management and shrinking distributions have combined for an overweighted alternatives exposure.
3 min read · 12 January 2013
Fortress' and Blackstone’s second quarter earnings results offer a glimpse into how firms are responding to a slowing fundraising pace, writes Matt Levin.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
The latest quarterly report from the US Real Estate Roundtable warns that 95 percent of real estate chief executives feel that access to debt financing is worse than 12 months ago, with almost nine out of 10 professionals saying commercial asset values will stay flat or even drop over the coming year.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
The real estate arm of the US pension fund and asset manager is targeting commercial real estate opportunities in the UK and Europe with its first international office. Former Invesco retail executive Paul Wilson will lead the effort.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Atlantis Plastics has sold off its molded plastics business to the KPS Special Situations spin-out as the distressed plastics company enters into Chapter 11.
1 min read · 12 January 2013
Development, agricultural or beachfront-land is proving the next hottest commodity for private equity real estate.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
The publicly listed investment firm also disclosed in its second quarter earnings call that it is nearing its $2.5bn target on a private equity-style credit fund – yet its fundraising pace has dropped more than 70 percent compared to the same period last year.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
The US mid-market firm has purchased an Illinois Tool Works subsidiary as it deploys remaining ‘reserve capital’ for add-ons from its $1.2bn Fund III.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
The number of recent private equity investments in wind farms has been head-spinning.
3 min read · 12 January 2013
