All Private Equity articles – Page 31
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Asset Class ReportsPrivate Equity: Coping with the hangover
After the big binge on leverage, Joseph Mariathasan finds that the next generation of private equity investors will have to go cold turkey, not rely on a hair of the dog
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Asset Class Reports
Private Equity: Don’t overlook the hidden costs
Cyril Demaria looks at factors that can generate substantial costs for large institutional investors apart from the usual direct and indirect costs associated with investing in private equity funds
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Opinion PiecesDominique Senequier, chief executive of AXA Private Equity
“SWFs, being long-term investors with steady funding sources, will have a role to play in shaping the future landscape of private equity”
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News
Survey reveals better alignment in emerging market private equity [AMENDED]
GLOBAL - A large majority of private equity limited partners (LPs) feel that their general partners (GPs) for emerging market funds are at least as well-aligned with them as their GPs for developed market funds, according to the latest EMPEA/Coller Capital Emerging Markets Private Equity Survey.
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News
Hermes GPE private equity arm eyes mid-size pensions
UK – Hermes Fund Managers Limited and Gartmore Investment Management Limited have combined their private equity fund of fund businesses into a new company Hermes GPE LLP, which will have strong focus on responsible investing.
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News
PPF assigns private equity manager panel
UK – The Pension Protection Fund (PPF) has appointed seven private equity managers as part of a move to increase its alternatives allocation.
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NewsPension funds withdrew private equity commitments in 2009
EUROPE - Pension fund commitments to private equity funds were last year almost wiped out in the wake of the financial crisis, according to analysis of investment and performance data.
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UK roundup: PPF targets secondary private equity
[15:45 CET 05-01] UK - The Pension Protection Fund (PPF) is seeking investment managers to take advantage of opportunities in the secondary private equity market. It is also re-tendering its global custody contract while the London Borough of Tower Hamlets is seeking a multi-asset passive investment manager.
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News
Icelandic pensions establish private equity fund
[16:10 CET 11-12] ICELAND – Sixteen Icelandic pension funds have co-founded the Icelandic Investment Fund (Framtakssjóður Íslands), which is designed to invest in domestic companies that have suffered in the financial crisis but which show potential.
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News
Investors uncertain about private equity future
[15:30 CET 07-12] The latest quarterly Global Private Equity Barometer from Coller Capital suggests European institutional investors have mixed feelings about the asset class. Half said they have an unfavourable view of private equity and few expect the bumper bull market returns to come back, but a big majority say ...
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Features
Private equity and the ‘new normal’
Swings between deflationary and inflationary economic cycles will play havoc with private equity investments, says Nicholas Doimi de Frankopan, but also separate the men from the boys
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Asset Class ReportsPrivate equity fundraising falls in 2009
[13:30 CET 05-11] GLOBAL - Private equity funds have raised only $150bn (€101bn) in the primary business market so far this year as the financial crisis has made investors more cautious, according to private equity placement agent Triago.
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News
Private equity 'well ahead' of regulatory thinking - State Street
[16:55 CEST 02-07] GLOBAL - Investors remain committed to private equity and are already benefiting from a “fundamental shift” in power away from general partners (GPs), according to State Street.
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News
USS goes in search of private equity expertise
[15:00 CEST 25-06] UK – USS, the UK’s second-largest defined benefit pension scheme, is expanding its alternative investments team again but is this time turning its attention to private equity.
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NewsInvestors predict private equity to suffer
[16:30 CEST 15-06] GLOBAL - The latest Global Private Equity Barometer, a twice-yearly survey of institutional investors in the asset class published by secondaries specialist Coller Capital, paints its gloomiest picture of expectations yet.
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NewsBig was not beautiful for private equity in 2008
[16:40 CEST 11-06] EUROPE – Investment in European private equity fell last year, according to the European Venture Capital Association but there was capital growth and an increase in smaller equity-centric buyouts – a trend apparently ongoing as Aberdeen’s private equity team has bought out its private equity arm.
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Pension funds stay focused on European private equity
[16:30 CET 18-03] EUROPE – Pension funds and other institutional investors remained major investors in private equity during the crisis, suggest the latest figures by the European Venture Capital Association (EVCA), but a pension fund official has questioned the sector's immediate future.
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News
Hedge funds and private equity win in diversity push
[16:30 CET 24-02] UK – Pensions funds chose to further diversify their asset allocation strategies last year by investing more of their assets in direct hedge funds and direct private equity while reducing the search for real estate managers, suggests a review of Watson Wyatt’s manager selections.
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Pension funds back private equity move into RI
[15:40 CET 13-02] GLOBAL – The £28bn (€32bn) Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) is one of a number of pension funds to support the introduction of guidelines for responsible investment (RI) by private equity firms.
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News
UN fund eyes hedge funds, private equity
[10:15 CET 08-01] GLOBAL – The $30bn (€22.1bn) United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund (UNJSPF) says it has approval to incorporate hedge fund of funds and private equity into its portfolio.
