All Private Equity articles – Page 41
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Newham picks HarbourVest for private equity
UK – The £535m (€874m) pension fund of the London Borough of Newham has appointed global private equity specialist, HarbourVest Partners to manage a new private equity portfolio.
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UK funds invest in Wilton private equity fund
UK- Wilton Asset Management has announced the closure of its $240m private equity pension funds in which pension funds for the Nottinghamshire County council and the Lattice group have taken undisclosed stakes.
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Advent to invest e1.4bn private equity in Europe
EUROPE- Private equity investor Advent International is to invest e1.4bn in western Europe following the announcement that its fourth fund Global Private Equity IV has raised e2bn
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Schroders raises e172m for private equity fund
UK – The Schroders Private Equity Fund of Funds has attracted €172m in the first phase of its launch, says Schroders after announcing the fund’s first close.
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The outlook for private equity
Only a few months ago, European venture capitalists were becoming increasingly gloomy about the prospect of an economic upturn. The starkest evidence was provided in August in the UK in Deloitte & Touche’s third-quarter Private Equity Confidence Survey. Of the 770 venture capitalists surveyed, 80% of respondents expected the UK ...
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Opportunity for private equity industry
In the 1990s indexing in the quoted equity markets came of age in two senses. First, many institutional investors chose to move from active to passive management of their portfolios (ie from individual stock picking to pro-rata investment in a basket of stocks forming an index), and second, the performance ...
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Germany ripe for private equity growth
GERMANY – The hitherto disappointing German private equity market is entering a transition phase that will lead to a more sustainable and attractive investment environment, despite a slowdown in the growth of private equity assets last year, says a report by AltAssets, the alternative investments research company....
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Hermes chief slams private equity industry
UK/EUROPE – Alistair Ross Goobey, the chief executive of Hermes Pensions Management has warned the private equity industry that it needs to cultivate a little more “humility” in its claims of outperformance, arguing that managers have confused a prolonged bull market with genius....
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Private equity investment drops off this year
EUROPE – Private equity investment across Europe decreased during the first six months of this year compared to last year, according to the EVCA Mid-Year Survey of Pan-European Private Equity and Venture Capital Activity, conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers....
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AXA Private Equity opens Frankfurt office
GERMANY/FRANCE - AXA Private Equity has opened a new German office in Frankfurt and announced the completion of its fund range with the addition of primary funds of funds to the firm’s offering....
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New private equity and joint venture at Kleinwort
UK - A new private equity fund is being launched by Kleinwort Capital, a joint venture set up by investment trust Kleinwort Development Fund and Dresdner Kleinwort Capital, the private equity arm of Dresdner Bank.
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Private equity awards
The £5bn (E8.1bn) Bradford-based West Yorkshire Pension Fund, the scheme for local government workers in the region, has appointed a raft of private equity managers as part of a move to increase venture assets to around four per cent of the fund’s portfolio in the next few years. The briefs, ...
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UK £5bn fund appoints five private equity managers
UK – The £5bn (€8.1bn) Bradford-based West Yorkshire Pension Fund, the scheme for local government workers in the region, has appointed a raft of private equity managers as part of a move to increase venture assets to around four per cent of the fund’s portfolio in the next few years....
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EVCA lobbies EU on private equity 'disparities'
EUROPE – Considerable disparities exist between EU member states over regulations and incentives surrounding venture capital and private equity, despite the single market, the European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (EVCA) today told European Union (EU) representatives....
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Denmark's ATP in $3bn private equity project
DENMARK - ATP, Denmark’s funded supplementary first pillar pension plan is targeting private equity (PE) investment of up to $3bn (e3.3bn), which would make it one of Europe’s largest pension investors in the asset class....
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Dutch fund head to chair Swiss private equity firm
NETHERLANDS/SWITZERLAND – Marinus Keijzer, chief investment officer of the Zeist based Emeritaatsfonds GKN pension fund and for 10 years a well known figure at Dutch superfund PGGM, is one of five new proposed board members of Swiss private equity firm 5e Holding....
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Hutton resigns from Morgan Grenfell Private Equity
UK – Deutsche Bank has brought in Sir Robert Smith as chief executive officer (CEO) at the group’s venture arm Morgan Grenfell Private Equity (MGPE) to replace former CEO Graham Hutton, who is leaving the firm following a disagreement over plans to sell the business to its management....
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UK £1.7bn fund seeks private equity managers
UK – Leicestershire County Council is seeking one or more private equity managers for some £50-75m (e80-e120m), or 3-5% of its £1.7bn total pension fund assets, according to Colin Pratt, investment manager at the council....
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Mercury Private Equity becomes HgCapital
UK – Mercury Private Equity, the London based venture capital outfit, which was spun off from Mercury Asset Management last year, has renamed itself HgCapital....
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NIB launches e500m private equity fund of funds
NETHERLANDS - NIB Capital Private Equity, the Amsterdam based jointly owned venture arm of Dutch superfunds ABP and PGGM, is to launch an e500m private equity fund of funds arrangement in the coming months aimed primarily at pension funds in the Benelux region.....
