The London and Hong Kong-based hedge fund manager is planning to wrap a $150m real estate opportunity fund around a strategy to unlock opportunistic returns from development and distressed real estate in Myanmar, Mongolia and Vietnam.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
The private equity-backed investment arm of India-based Hero Group intends to merge with fellow group subsidiary, Hero MotoCorp.
2 min read · 14 January 2013
Carl Icahn voiced his aim to further explore a potential sale of Chesapeake Midstream, a Chesapeake Energy unit part-owned by Global Infrastructure Partners. The fund manager helped launch the company in 2009.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
Distressed funds in Asia are struggling to raise money while other sources of capital are competing with private equity.
2 min read · 14 January 2013
The $153bn retirement system may set a $500m maximum on individually managed accounts, according to an investment policy proposal.
2 min read · 14 January 2013
Buyers of assets need to understand the pension liabilities they may be taking on. In the pages that follow, Colin Haines outlines the key considerations.
10 min read · 15 January 2013
In the US infrastructure market, procurement risk is the most common, and most fatal, form of risk. Chris Glynn explains why.
8 min read · 15 January 2013
DiNapoli, the comptroller of New York State, has been running media tours of companies in his private equity portfolio – showing off the scrappy young companies its money is helping to grow
3 min read · 14 January 2013
A financing method dating back to Thatcher-era economic reform, the availability payment model is finally coming of age in the US. But it’s not a solution for a fundamental lack of money.
3 min read · 15 January 2013
With some US Midwest states apparently keen on privatisation, Kansas has remained an anomaly: doggedly self-sufficient, eschewing PPPs, and relying instead on a disciplined state budget and handful of federal money.
3 min read · 15 January 2013
