Scott Jacobsen has left the US’s largest public pension fund after six years in its private investments team, Secondaries Investor has learned.
1 min read · 03 October 2016
The target of a £1bn unsolicited bid from HarbourVest, said it is in ‘detailed’ talks with the consortium just days before HarbourVest’s first close deadline.
1 min read · 03 October 2016
Private equity firms should go beyond enforcement cases and speeches and look internally to identify problems that could arise during an SEC inspection, said the Commission’s Igor Rozenblit.
2 min read · 02 October 2016
The Japanese insurer’s decision to create an alternatives division follows sister company Japan Post Bank’s move in December to establish a private equity division.
1 min read · 30 September 2016
Veena Isaac, an eight-year veteran of the firm, has joined Jasper Ridge Partners’ Menlo Park office to focus on secondaries.
1 min read · 29 September 2016
The London-listed firm says it is ‘in talks’ with potential buyers, so Secondaries Investor examined who those suitors might be.
5 min read · 29 September 2016
CFOs can offer investors another route into a growing market, write Park Hill’s Adrian Millan and Pablo Caló.
6 min read · 28 September 2016
HVPE, a listed fund of funds that invests in and alongside HarbourVest-managed funds, transitioned to the main market of the LSE last year.
3 min read · 28 September 2016
There is increasing scepticism among limited partners regarding fund restructurings and recapitalisations, according to Oregon State Treasury’s Sam Green.
2 min read · 28 September 2016
Adam Howarth, co-head of private equity secondaries at Partners Group, explains how heightened anxiety in the market is impacting activity at the firm and why secondaries returns will become increasingly mixed.
5 min read · 27 September 2016
