The social online gaming company’s liquidity event could increase LP appetite for venture capital, considered by some LPs to be the ‘least loved’ of the asset classes.
3 min read · 15 January 2013
After two years of significantly lower commitment levels to alternative investments, the pensions system ramped up its commitment pace this year to about $1.8bn as of 30 September, and has chosen managers like Blackstone, GSO and Oaktree.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
Knock-out return for The California Public Employees’ Retirement System’s (CalPERS) from its original $500m commitment to GI Partners Fund I.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
A 1% management fee on invested capital was one of several choice economic terms that New Jersey's alternatives chief Christine Pastore helped build into customised funds managed by Blackstone.
4 min read · 15 January 2013
A group of five banks are extending a $380m debt facility that originally expired in August 2012, leaving the Australian toll road operator with no senior debt maturing before 2014.
1 min read · 15 January 2013
The private equity firm has denied its investment in the Australian media group is in trouble, but reportedly asked its creditors to respond to a new plan on refinancing by Christmas.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
The private equity firm has denied its investment in the Australian media group is in trouble, but reportedly asked its creditors to respond to a new plan on refinancing by Christmas.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
The $66bn pension projects saving $120m in fees over the life of the partnership, in which the system will allocate capital to traditional Blackstone funds and customised accounts with ‘1% and 15%’ term structures.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
Moody’s estimates Australia’s rated infrastructure issuers will have to raise some A$9bn to refinance existing debt. But while it states ‘issuers face increasing refinancing challenges’, Moody’s argues ‘the exercise should be manageable overall’.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
The two companies reached commercial close on the $2.1bn project with the state, prompting Governor Robert McDonnell to credit Virginia as an ‘innovator’ capable of making ‘complex public transportation’ possible. Financial close is expected in early 2012.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
