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2 min read · 12 January 2013
Robert Zulkoski created a stir when he left Colony Capital Asia Pacific in 2004 to set up Pangaea Capital Management, an Asia-focused special situations fund manager. Earlier this year, Pangaea became part of Oaktree Capital Management, a US alternative investment group with big plans for the region. The sale has thrust Zulkoski back into the spotlight and brought him back together with former colleagues at Colony. In September, Sharon Lim met him to learn how and why it all happened.
7 min read · 12 January 2013
The Carlyle Group is moving towards closing the largest buyout in Australia since the market got squeezed by the global liquidity crunch sparked by the US subprime mortgage crisis in July.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Asian private equity is going through another record year of fund formation. Sharon Lim explains why, and asks for how much longer the boom can continue.
7 min read · 12 January 2013
Banks and investment groups may have found a cure for debt indigestion in the form of the hung bridge fund. By Andy Thomson.
3 min read · 12 January 2013
The implications of the liquidity crisis remain unclear, but confidence is high that investors will not lose their appetite for private equity – and even the larger funds finding it difficult to finance new deals don't seem to be losing support. Andy Thomson reports.
8 min read · 12 January 2013
Oaktree Capital Management is an alternative asset manager well placed to profit from this summer's liquidity crisis. In a rare interview, co-founder and chairman Howard Marks talked with PEI about changes in market cycles, his firm's innovative investment approach and the decision to float its management company, on Goldman's private exchange.
7 min read · 12 January 2013
Katja Salovaara explains why the market lull will not divert Finnish pension Ilmarinen from increasing its commitment to private equity. By Andy Thomson.
4 min read · 12 January 2013
Investors are piling into the renewable energy sector, but are in danger of overlooking the best opportunities. In the first of a two-part feature Sam Richardson, an investment director at London-based venture capital firm E-Synergy, considers right and wrong approaches. Part two, in the next issue of PEI, will look at the attitude of institutions toward renewable energy.
5 min read · 12 January 2013
Silicon Valley's Bessemer Venture Partners will go “carbon neutral” by the end of the year, a step that few other private equity firms appear poised to take. Jennifer Harris reports.
3 min read · 12 January 2013
