The $43bn United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund carved out a 6% allocation to private equity last year and has made its first commitments to big funds this summer.
2 min read · 29 July 2011
The Swiss firm is poised to bring a third secondaries fund to market after closing its predecessor, Crown Global Secondaries III, on $1.2bn last year.
1 min read · 29 July 2011
The firm’s fifth secondaries fund of funds, launched late last year, is approaching its $3.5bn target.
1 min read · 12 July 2011
The San Francisco secondaries firm exceeded its sixth fund’s $300m target by attracting new LPs and re-ups.
1 min read · 11 July 2011
Committed Advisors, founded by former AXA PE executives Daniel Benin and Barthelemy de Beaupuy, has already closed on eight transactions.
1 min read · 07 July 2011
Abu Dhabi Capital Management Secondary Private Equity Fund is 40% invested. The firm will raise a second fund focused on secondaries ‘in a few months’ with a $100m target.
1 min read · 06 July 2011
The firm has closed its seventh fund on $7bn and has raised an additional $650m for Lexington Middle Market Investors II, a complementary vehicle to invest in ‘young’ private equity interests.
2 min read · 05 July 2011
The Marleen Groen-led firm won a mandate from the IFC to raise up to $500m for a secondaries fund that will target private equity in emerging economies.
3 min read · 05 July 2011
The US state’s investment board has committed more than two thirds of newly-deployed capital to private equity funds specialising in the energy sector.
1 min read · 22 June 2011
The secondaries firm, which began fundraising in early 2008, has closed on $5bn and is expected to hold a final close by 30 June.
2 min read · 14 June 2011
