Fernando Salazar has joined real estate-focused investment banking firm The Carlton Group to lead the bank’s new Frankfurt office.
1 min read · 14 February 2013
Cairn Capital is set to launch only the third CLO fund marketed to European institutional investors since 2008 in what could be a test case for the industry.
3 min read · 08 February 2013
The Paris-based manager’s second fund of debt funds is targeting €250 million and will have a broader remit than its mezzanine-focused predecessor.
2 min read · 12 February 2013
Stephen Dowd joined the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan after a career in banking. As head of an C$8.7bn portfolio dedicated to investing directly in infrastructure, he chatted with Chris Glynn about that enviable and distinctly Canadian innovation: managing a public pension like a private business.
8 min read · 15 February 2013
The UK Coalition government has made no shortage of announcements on infrastructure, but how good are the ideas and how much progress have they made? Opposition Labour MP John Healey gives his verdict
8 min read · 15 February 2013
Ashurst’s Gonzalo Jimenez Blanco and José María Anarte offer the legal lowdown on the troubles affecting Spain’s roads sector.
6 min read · 15 February 2013
Despite a record year for investments, the New York-based private equity and real estate giant anticipates realization activity will ramp up over the next two years, particularly in its property portfolio.
3 min read · 15 February 2013
The bid to end the general solicitation ban continues to drag on, as the fate of a rule eliminating the prohibition hangs in limbo following a shakeup in leadership at the SEC. PERE Magazine, February 2013
3 min read · 15 February 2013
Regulators gave the private equity and real estate fund industry something to worry about in 2012. More of the same is expected in 2013 and beyond. PERE Magazine, February 2013 issue.
7 min read · 15 February 2013
The appointment of Robert ‘Bo’ Ramsey to replace Bob Clone as chief of private equity at Indiana Public Retirement System raises yet more questions about what’s going on with its private equity programme – questions that the pension fund seems disappointingly reluctant to answer
4 min read · 15 February 2013
