Private equity provided an 18.6 percent return for the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System last year, allowing the Canadian pension to beat its overall benchmark. Amanda Janis recently met with Paul Renaud, head of OMERS Capital Partners, to discuss the methodology his in-house investment team employs and his thoughts on industry trends.
10 min read · 12 January 2013
AIG's Latin America private equity group has deployed more than 16 percent of its recently closed $692m fund.
6 min read · 12 January 2013
Travant Capital Partners has reached its first close within 10 months, raising hopes for the development of a domestic African private equity industry
5 min read · 12 January 2013
Global private energy specialist First Reserve has broadened its investment scope with a $300m investment in barley-based ethanol production.
6 min read · 12 January 2013
The Blackstone Group hasn't lost faith in its investment in Deutsche Telekom – yet.
6 min read · 12 January 2013
3i, the London-listed private equity giant, is trading at a discount to net asset value but has grand plans to nearly double its assets under management by the end of 2010.
6 min read · 12 January 2013
Private equity firms are queuing up to relieve the banks of their LBO exposure. Ironic? Typical more like.
3 min read · 12 January 2013
PEAK PERFORMANCE 2008-06-01 Staff Writer ‘Long-term performance is what matters in private equity‘. This oft-recited statement is a truism in the sense that clearly what happens over a ten-year period is of more significance than, let's say, a mere 12 months. Keeping the thought firmly at the front of one's
2 min read · 12 January 2013
HarbourVest Global Private Equity has reaped a 3.9 percent gain in net asset value almost exclusively from secondary interests in its private parent company.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Standard Life European Private Equity Trust has seen 185 percent gain in net asset value over the past five years and a 10 percent gain over the last six months.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
