The bank already earns fees from servicing private equity, real estate and infrastructure funds from an office in London, but is now opening in Jersey in a bid to capture more clients.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The $67bn Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation is branching out into alternatives and seeking up to three private equity and real estate advisors to manage a $5.5bn alternatives ‘pot’.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation is seeking up to three private equity and real estate advisors to manage its new $5.5bn alternatives ‘pot’. The pension fund, which represents 44 million US citizens, is branching out into alternatives in a bid to reduce its $14bn deficit.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
GE’s former managing director for the UK will be heading up the firm’s equity investments in the Americas, including its investments in Canada, Mexico and South America.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The number of recent private equity investments in wind farms has been head-spinning.
3 min read · 22 January 2013
The buyout firm, set to list on the New York Stock Exchange later this year, has added John Byson, former Edison International chairman and chief executive, as senior advisor for its infrastructure initiative. KKR announced its infrastructure initiative in May and is reportedly raising a $5bn infrastructure fund
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The Blackstone Group has expanded its presence in Asia with the launch of an office in Beijing, its fourth in the region.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
Just months after its Euronext-traded Carlyle Capital fund folded, the private equity firm is shutting down an affiliated hedge fund. It backed away from its previous hedge fund strategy, a fund of hedge funds, in 2003.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The Danish private equity real estate firm has completed a sale and leaseback of three offices in Warsaw with France Telecom’s Polish subsidiary.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The Oregon Investment Council has also retained its target allocation to private equity at 16 percent.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
