The global investment firm is back in market two years after raising the largest-ever pool of real estate secondaries capital.
1 min read · 31 October 2016
Removal of restrictions on asset holdings by Solvency II, coupled with low fixed income returns, is encouraging insurers to allocate more cash to alternatives.
2 min read · 31 October 2016
Secondaries Investor has been in the Big Apple talking to market participants. Here’s how things look from North America.
3 min read · 30 September 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
The global investment firm has acquired stakes in a fund that invested in Krispy Kreme UK from Deutsche Bank, a UK pension fund and a Swiss insurer.
2 min read · 27 September 2016
The Edinburgh-based firm’s SOF platform has delivered a 35% gross IRR, according to documents presented to the San Bernardino County pension.
2 min read · 27 April 2016
The pension, which is planning to commit $1.5bn to private equity this year, will not re-up into some funds.
2 min read · 21 April 2016
The French fund of funds sold on part of USS’s €150m commitment in a European buyout fund to at least four parties.
2 min read · 17 March 2016
Partners Group was one of the LPs who sold stakes, while SL Capital Partners was part of a group who either acquired new stakes or increased their exposure to the €2.2bn vehicle.
2 min read · 16 March 2016
The acquisition of €1.3bn worth of assets included stakes in at least 11 private equity, real estate and private debt funds.
2 min read · 18 February 2016