Policy

Net asset values will decline more over the next few quarters, brining allocations back into balance, according to a white paper published by the secondaries specialist.

JPMorgan is reportedly looking to increase to $1bn its Indian private equity investments. Last month, PEO reported the firm held a $500m first close on an Asian infrastructure fund.

The US investment bank continues to enhance its private equity activities in the region, closing on one-third of the capital it is raising for a pan-Asian infrastructure fund.

The longtime head of DLJ Merchant Banking told The New York Times yesterday that he left the firm in part as the result of an online smear campaign’s impact on both the firm and his family. The attack was launched by the ex-husband of Rattner’s former mistress.

As part of its clean tech investment drive, the German bank’s asset management division is in the early stages of developing a fund exclusively devoted to climate change technology.

The newly formed lobbying group has released its first white paper in defence of private equity, coinciding with the first day of the Senate Finance Committee’s hearings on the taxation of carried interest.