Kate Ashton, a corporate partner at law firm Debevoise & Plimpton who counsels private equity and other investment funds, recently sat down with Secondaries Investor for a Q&A on fund restructurings.
4 min read · 28 January 2016
Anne Stausboll has served CalPERS as chief executive since January 2009, a time when the largest US public pension fund was experiencing turmoil from the financial crisis and an ethics scandal involving its former officials.
2 min read · 22 January 2016
The firm’s global head of secondaries, Andrew Hawkins, outlines ICG’s strategy for making restructurings work.
2 min read · 14 January 2016
The country’s biggest pension fund has been pruning relationships with external managers and shifting its real estate allocation into safer investment strategies.
3 min read · 17 December 2015
Family offices and smaller pensions and endowments are turning to leverage to remain competitive when purchasing fund stakes in the secondaries market, according to Investec.
2 min read · 16 December 2015
With strong liquidity and subdued regulatory pressure on LPs to reduce private equity exposure, today’s sellers are predominantly using the secondaries market to re-balance portfolios, explains Landmark’s Ian Charles.
5 min read · 14 December 2015
The California pension plan reported that its fund managers have realised $3.4bn in shared profits, a number that industry practitioners fear will be taken out of context by media outlets.
2 min read · 25 November 2015
The firm selected by the State Universities Retirement System of Illinois will manage about $100m in total.
1 min read · 24 November 2015
The state pension plan has invested in two previous Metropolitan funds.
1 min read · 18 November 2015
The pension plan, which has $62bn in assets, is an existing investor in Coller funds.
1 min read · 16 November 2015
