The appointment of Daniel Green as chief investment officer allows chief executive Marleen Groen to focus purely on her role as head of the business as it continues to expand.
2 min read · 01 October 2012
The Nebraska Investment Council made a total of $50m in commitments to HarbourVest’s latest ‘Dover Street’ fund – targeting $3bn – and RCP’s eighth fund of funds vehicle.
2 min read · 28 September 2012
CPPIB has anchored a vehicle managed by the Grant Behrman-led firm to house five portfolio companies. The companies will pay an exit fee used mostly to cash out existing LPs.
3 min read · 11 September 2012
French private equity group Idinvest, formerly the in-house arm of investment bank Allianz, has held a €100m first close on its new secondaries fund.
1 min read · 07 September 2012
A recent fund restructuring on the secondary market illustrates how secondaries firms can help create options for LPs in funds well beyond their contractual lives. By Christopher Witkowsky
7 min read · 04 September 2012
The restructuring, financed in part by an investor group that includes Landmark and Vision Capital, is seen as a way of providing options to LPs in a fund that has lived beyond its intended life.
4 min read · 29 August 2012
The $37bn retirement system is issuing an RFP for a consultant to assist in the engagement of the private equity secondary market.
2 min read · 24 August 2012
The $122bn pension system has completed its sale of private equity interests, selling ‘relationships’, according to Barry Miller, head of private equity in the city Comptroller’s office.
2 min read · 23 August 2012
The Zug-based private markets investment firm described in its latest research how it is placing its current real estate investing emphasis on investments in debt and secondaries, both direct and indirect, as it avoids a “herding mentality”.
2 min read · 21 August 2012
Coller Capital has agreed to pay Lloyds Banking Group £1.03bn for a portfolio of private equity investments, in a marquee deal that features an unusual structure.
2 min read · 15 August 2012
