The New York-headquartered firm is expanding its alternatives franchise with the acquisition of Credit Suisse’s ‘Strategic Partners’ group.
2 min read · 23 April 2013
The $72.8 billion pension plan has approved an investment to Blackstone’s new Asia-focused vehicle. It also announced an update to its real estate secondary offering.
3 min read · 22 March 2013
The $78.1 billion pension system is weighing the possible sale of fund interests in its real estate portfolio.
2 min read · 26 February 2013
The firm has purchased five fund stakes from a bank just a week after purchasing a £160m portfolio of assets from UBM’s data services division.
2 min read · 12 February 2013
Advantage Partners will sell a coffee shop franchise to MBK Partners for about $480 million, highlighting a growing trend of GP-to-GP secondaries in Japan.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
The $70.8 billion pension system is considering a massive sale of real estate holdings in a continuing effort to cull under-performing or redundant investments from its portfolio.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
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 $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
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
The group’s ability to source and execute deals – as demonstrated by its acquisition of a Swedbank portfolio this week – persuaded LPs to support a significant increase in AXA’s latest secondaries fund.
2 min read · 19 June 2012
