All Private Equity articles – Page 35
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FRR awards €150m private equity mandate
FRANCE – The €29bn Fonds de Réserve Pour les Retraites, the French Pensions Reserve Fund, says it has awarded €150m in private equity to AXA Private Equity Europe.
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Dutch painters tap CS for private equity
NETHERLANDS – The Dutch painters industry pension fund has appointed Credit Suisse Benelux with a €45m private equity mandate, the bank announced today.
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Chelsea & Kensington invest in private equity
UK – The £379m (€561m) Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea pension fund has started investments into private equity.
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Pension funds losers in private equity - Citigroup
GLOBAL – Pension funds are the ultimate losers in the shift from public to private equity, according to Citigroup.
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Rise and rise of private equity fees
Partnership structures fees and other compensation systems may have to be reviewed given the rapid expansion of private equity in recent years. John Barber reports
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Studies find private equity taking strong hold among Europe’s investors
EUROPE – European institutional investors’ growing appetite for diversification and the “superior returns” of private equity is set to encourage rapid growths in the asset class, studies have revealed today.
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Germany considers private equity crackdown
GERMANY – The German government is considering penalising private equity firms which it believes serve little or no macroeconomic purpose as part of an upcoming private equity law, according to deputy finance minister Barbara Hendricks.
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Gwynedd scheme to put 5% into private equity
UK – The £741m (€1.1bn) Gwynedd council pension fund is looking to invest in private equity via fund of fund managers to help address its £129m deficit.
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Hermes’ Anson queries private equity fees
UK – Hermes Pensions Management chief executive Mark Anson has called for lower private equity fees, according to reports.
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KEVA, AlpInvest in Polish private equity move
POLAND – Finland’s KEVA and the Dutch pension fund-owned AlpInvest are among the institutional backers of a new Polish private equity fund.
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Horeca taps SPF for €40m private equity brief
NETHERLANDS – Pensioenfonds Horeca & Catering, the €2bn Dutch hotel and catering scheme, has awarded SPF Beheer with a €40m private equity mandate, as part of its 5% weighting target in the asset class.
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German institutions eye structured, private equity
GERMANY – Pension funds and insurers are planning more investment in alternatives this year and next, but will only award mandates for structured products and private equity, according to a new survey by German consultant Heissmann.
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Swedes and Dutch scrutinise private equity funds’ role
EUROPE – A week before general elections, the Swedish government has raised concerns about private equity fund Cevian’s investment approach in Volvo.
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Big UK schemes warm to private equity
UK – Representatives of some of the largest UK pension funds have come out in favour of private equity as an asset class – though they say a “new professionalism” is needed.
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Swedish regulator voices concern on private equity
SWEDEN - Sweden’s financial supervisory authority, Finasinspektionen (FI), has said it is worried about the rising levels of debt in private equity and venture capital companies and has called for greater transparency in their activities.
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Lane Clark parent gets private equity approach
UK – Alexander Forbes, the South African-based parent company of UK actuaries Lane Clark & Peacock, is in talks with private equity investors about a sale of the entire group.
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BIG forms private equity joint venture
IRELAND – Financial services outfit Bank of Ireland Group (BIG) has formed a joint venture with US private equity specialist Paul Capital Partners to provide private equity fund of funds products and advisory services to institutional and other investors worldwide.
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AP1 appoints three private equity managers
SWEDEN – The roughly SEK187.3bn (€20.2bn) buffer fund Första AP-Fonden, or AP1, has appointed three private equity managers as part of its diversification strategy into alternative investments.
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Germany mulls private equity tax - Handelsblatt
GERMANY – The German government is considering taxing the earnings of locally domiciled private equity funds, according to business daily Handelsblatt.
