In its second quarter results, the New York-based asset manager reported that revenue growth in its real estate segment had sextupled, largely from increased management fees, and also revealed a second closing for its latest real estate fund.
3 min read · 15 January 2013
Richard Slocum, a highly-regarded LP who helped craft the ILPA Private Equity Principles, will join the family office of the Johnson Family as CIO.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
Leon Black-led Apollo — which has approximately $10bn in dry powder — believes the volatile markets could be rife with opportunities.
3 min read · 15 January 2013
Six months after determining it would commit up to $1.2 billion of equity commitments to real estate value-added and opportunity funds, Korea’s largest institutional investor has made four commitments to managers deploying strategies in North and South America.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
Six months after determining it would commit up to $1.2 billion of equity commitments to real estate value-added and opportunity funds, Korea’s largest institutional investor has made four commitments to managers deploying strategies in North and South America.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
Pacific Equity Partners-backed Collins Foods is the latest private equity-backed company to list in Australia and have its share price fall.
3 min read · 15 January 2013
KKR posted a surprise decline in earnings during Q2, with economic net income falling by 27% despite the group growing assets under management to $61.9bn as of 30 June, up from $54.4bn at the same point last year.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
The Virginia Department of Transportation has issued a request for detailed proposals for the Route 460 highway extension, which has attracted interest from Cintra, Kiewit, Skanska and other groups. Virginia hopes to sign a contract for the project by next May.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
A law passed in June would allow the $65bn pension system to raise its allocation to private equity, to the chagrin of some lawmakers who don’t like the asset class.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
The EIB hopes that its project bond initiative will help it gracefully step back from the prominent lending role it has assumed following the global financial crisis. But the new initiative may originate another cycle of EIB-dependence.
3 min read · 15 January 2013
