One of the UK’s largest pension funds brought about $1bn worth of fund stakes to market last year but only sold a portion of it, Secondaries Investor has learned.
2 min read · 25 January 2016
The firm has established its first Latin American presence with a principal relocating from London to head the team.
1 min read · 25 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
Morgan Stanley, LGT Capital Partners and Neuberger Berman were the main investors in the restructuring of Newport Global Opportunities Fund, a distressed debt fund raised a decade ago.
3 min read · 21 January 2016
The private equity firm has acquired stakes in seven companies which are in high-growth sectors in the Nordic region.
2 min read · 21 January 2016
The promotions were part of a raft of advancements at the investment bank across various divisions including its secondaries advisory unit.
1 min read · 21 January 2016
Scala Fund Advisory is currently fundraising for European managers and offers secondaries fund market analysis to institutional investors.
1 min read · 21 January 2016
Some strategies such as GP-led restructurings and real estate secondaries bucked the trend and grew in 2015.
2 min read · 20 January 2016
This is at least the fourth secondaries deal for the London private equity firm’s EP1 Secondary Portfolio which invests from Electra’s own capital.
2 min read · 20 January 2016
More and more GPs are taking bundles of assets from expired infra funds and moving them into new, longer-dated yield-generating vehicles which they then open up to new LPs through stake sales.
3 min read · 20 January 2016
