Hedge fund manager Julian Robertson and former assistant secretary to the US Treasury Emil W. Henry have launched Tiger Infrastructure Partners, an infrastructure private equity firm which will focus on the energy and power, water, waste, transportation and communications sectors.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
Fundraising by Australian private equity funds plummeted to A$1.54bn in the year ending June 2009, although total investment value registered a slight increase.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
Four veterans of the Asia real estate market gather in Singapore to compare notes. For the third year, PERE organised a roundtable discussion about the Asia real estate investment opportunity, this time in Singapore’s iconic Raffles Hotel. Our four Asia old-hands spoke optimistically about the forward fundamentals of many Asian countries, but voiced caution about the fragility in the west. PERE November issue.
10 min read · 08 February 2013
Campbell Lutyens has brokered a secondary restructuring transaction of Swiss-listed APEN, formerly known as AIG Private Equity.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
<italic>LP intelligence from PrivateEquityOnline and PrivateEquityConnect</italic> 2009-11-01 Staff Writer <strong>ALLOCATION CHANGES</strong><br> <bold>Shell Pension Fund UK</bold> is considering a new 5 percent allocation to alternative assets. This will cover hed
4 min read · 08 February 2013
Frederic Lemoine embraced a tough challenge when he took over as chief executive at Paris-listed investment group Wendel Investissement earlier this year.
7 min read · 08 February 2013
The architect of Lehman Brothers' private equity strategy is to head a new investment business with the firm that advised on its overhaul in bankruptcy
3 min read · 08 February 2013
The world this month 2009-11-01 Staff Writer <strong>FUNDRAISING WINNERS AND LOSERS</strong><br> <sec level="2"><strong>HELLMAN & FRIEDMAN CLOSES $8.8BN FUND</strong><br> The San Francisco firm has raised the year's second-largest fund which, at $8.8 billion, i
6 min read · 08 February 2013
Does a deal closure in Miami herald better times? Stephanie Kopelousos, the Florida Secretary of Transportation, reflects on a project that went to the brink and back.
3 min read · 08 February 2013
ABN AMRO Global Infrastructure Fund, owner of Belfast City Airport, is the latest fund to spin out from its parent.
2 min read · 08 February 2013