The Carlyle Group's Global Market Strategies team, helmed by Linda Pace in the US, has raised four CLO funds this year with the latest closing on $620m this week.
1 min read · 15 January 2013
A Probitas Partners survey has found increasing support for US and European mid-market funds among limited partner respondents.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
Almost 200 private debt funds are chasing combined commitments of $124 billion, according to PEI research, as managers look to exploit credit opportunities created by banks’ partial retreat from the market.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
As the head of a firm that has just raised the largest fund the infrastructure asset class has ever seen, GIP’s Adebayo Ogunlesi has reaped the benefits of delivering on a strategy that countered many prevailing notions when it was first devised. Philip Borel caught up with Ogunlesi to reflect on the firm’s progress to date
10 min read · 15 January 2013
The EIB’s project bond initiative could fail to launch in 2014 if its pilot phase turns out to be unsuccessful, with the bank fearful that sponsors and procurement authorities will fail to take advantage of the scheme. Bruno Alves reports
7 min read · 15 January 2013
European infrastructure investors may well be hoping the UK fails to get its way in the battle over the EU budget
3 min read · 15 January 2013
PFI’s successor should have been the framework that conclusively brought institutional investors into the mainstream of greenfield infrastructure debt financing.
3 min read · 15 January 2013
Metric Capital Partners has put together a high-powered team from the private equity world to try and tap into credit opportunities in the European mid-market. By Oliver Smiddy
3 min read · 15 January 2013
Dividend recaps are undeniably controversial. But they’re a perfectly legitimate way for managers to get much-needed capital back to their LPs – as long as they’re done right
4 min read · 15 January 2013
Bryan Martin, who joined New Jersey last year to head up real estate and real assets and helped design the system’s innovative separate accounts business, has joined an insurance agency in Nebraska.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
