The global alternatives group distributed $6.4bn to investors in the first quarter this year, almost as much as the $7.5bn it returned in 2010, according to the David Rubenstein-led firm’s annual report.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
They have many names: 'Family Enterprises', 'Family-backed Investors', 'Family Offices' and 'Family funds under management'. The credit crunch has resulted in major changes to the way large families who run their own investment vehicles think and how they invest their money, writes Mike Reid, managing partner of Frog Capital.
4 min read · 15 January 2013
Former Towerbrook Capital Partners managing director John Sinik has launched a debt fund management business which is hoping to raise at least €300m for its maiden vehicle.
3 min read · 15 January 2013
The EC and EIB’s plans to credit-enhance private sector infrastructure bonds do not guarantee those bonds an A-rating, Fitch has said in a report.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
Portugal will have to look into its PPP contracts with a view to ‘reduce the government’s financial obligations’ as part of the €78bn EU/IMF bailout provided to the country. The bailout also encourages the government to try and reduce feed-in tariffs for existing renewable contracts.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
The bankruptcy of the South Bay Expressway in Southern California demonstrates why it’s good the infrastructure lobby doesn’t always get what it wants in Washington DC.
3 min read · 15 January 2013
A combination of abundant natural resource and government support has made Latin America – and Brazil and Mexico in particular – increasingly attractive to infrastructure funds eyeing renewables. Alexandra Atiya reports
6 min read · 15 January 2013
The Hong Kong-based investment management firm expects the hybrid hedge and private equity fund to reach $1bn in AuM within three years.
1 min read · 15 January 2013
Partners Group chief executive Steffen Meister tells PE Asia why the firm has ramped up direct investing and what it finds alluring about Asia.
6 min read · 15 January 2013
Limited partners have been slowly opening up to new VC relationships now that the industry has shrunk and top managers are back to courting investors
9 min read · 15 January 2013
