Marathon Asset Management recently held a first close reportedly on $400m for PPIP, leaving Oaktree as the last firm to reach the benchmark.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
The Hastings Infrastructure Debt Fund III will predominantly lend junior debt to infrastructure projects and businesses in sectors such as utilities, transport, telecommunications and social infrastructure.
1 min read · 08 February 2013
The California Public Employees' Retirement System is reportedly weighing its future relationship with asset manager BlackRock following its investment in the New York Stuyvesant Town deal.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
Pledge funds are gaining steam among newer GP groups trying to make an impression with LPs. But the deal-by-deal funding model has some serious weaknesses that fund managers and LPs need to consider.
5 min read · 08 February 2013
Private equity firms spent 2009 strengthening portfolios and are now looking to invest large amounts of dry powder, a panel in New York told delegates.
3 min read · 08 February 2013
The Tokyo-based firm will make growth capital investments and provide fresh funding for stressed Japanese companies.
1 min read · 08 February 2013
Japanese LPs have provided the capital for the Tokyo-based firm's latest special situations fund.
1 min read · 08 February 2013
In 2009, Americans have received warning after warning that their governments face alternatively a ‘decade of debt’ or a ‘lost decade’ due to massive, painful and protracted budget deficits that are here to stay. Opportunities are abound for infrastructure investors – but so are the pitfalls.
5 min read · 08 February 2013
The US pension is the latest to join the government’s programme meant to jumpstart the credit markets, which CalPERS has said it will not join.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
The $126bn pension has created a new allocation to house its investments in the US Public Private Investment Programme.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
