Toby Mitchenall
Tax is not on the ESG agenda; maybe it should be
The £60bn UK pension fund believes it can deliver 'superior after-cost risk-adjusted returns’ by going direct.
LPs ‘love to focus on it’, but uncompeted deal processes do not lead to better returns, say dealmakers.
A final close is understood to be just weeks away on the firm's first sector-focused fund.
Daniel Green, a veteran secondaries investor, has taken on a broader remit that will cover primaries and secondaries across various private markets.
The Chief Secretary to the UK Treasury David Gauke praised the work of the private equity industry in an address to LPs and GPs in London on Thursday.
The investment management giant has hired a veteran of private equity and infrastructure investing in Rotterdam.
In a ‘blow’ to African private equity, Richard Laing will quit the development-focused fund of funds in early 2012 after the completion of a government review of its activities.
The Russian bank’s private equity team’s plans include a $500m mid-market fund and various types of real asset investment programmes.
The energy investor has raised its largest fund ever at $3.5bn after around nine months of fundraising. The fund was strongly backed by US public pensions.