The Carlyle Group has acquired the company which owns Italian womenswear brand Twin Set Simona Barbieri in a deal understood to be worth between €250m and €300m.
2 min read · 14 January 2013
The French fund manager is the largest shareholder in the consortium that has just closed the €2.28bn Nimes-Montpellier high-speed rail line – the last PPP in France’s ambitious high-speed rail programme – backed by a club of 13 banks.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
With necessary but controversial privatisations underway, Australian states are looking to the Superannuation funds to prove their commitment to their home market
3 min read · 15 January 2013
James Bennett (pictured) has joined Kiewit Development Company as senior P3 executive. Bennett had headed North America for John Laing.
1 min read · 15 January 2013
In a commentary today on the defensive value of real estate, CBRE’s chief EMEA economist, Peter Damesik, argues that even in the most extreme circumstances, it is unlikely investors would experience a total loss if they buy an office occupied by a bank, making it better than owning shares in the banks themselves.
3 min read · 15 January 2013
The state investment board wants to reduce its exposure to the largest funds in the market and is selling stakes in funds managed by KKR, Charterhouse, Carlyle and Blackstone.
2 min read · 14 January 2013
Girard Miller will be tasked with overseeing the Orange County Employees Retirement System’s $9.6bn portfolio as it implements a new asset allocation mix.
1 min read · 14 January 2013
The time for distressed investing in India has arrived, but investors on the whole are hesitating to take advantage of it.
3 min read · 14 January 2013
A consortium led by Egyptian private equity firm Citadel Capital has achieved financial close on a $3.7bn deal to construct a greenfield refining upgrade public-private partnership project in the Greater Cairo area.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
Joe Azelby, a one-time professional American football player, has built JPMorgan’s core US real estate platform into a global real assets business with $60 billion under management. In an interview with PERE, he explains why he is a fan of diversity, why investors need to change their attitude towards allocation and why he ultimately is glad that his football career was short. By Robin Marriott. PERE Magazine June 2012 issue.
10 min read · 15 January 2013
