staging
Giant investors
ArcLight Capital Partners’ $3.4bn haul for its seventh flagship fund and Odyssey Investment Partners’ $3.25bn for its sixth flagship fund were among the largest funds closed during the month.
Precipitous drop in California
Negative returns in credit, funds of funds and emerging markets dulled the $402bn institution’s PE performance last year, investment committee documents show.
GP stake sales
Infra managers have long been in demand for the funds they manage; now, third-party investors also want a slice of the GP pie.
Tokyo, Japan
Yasuyuki Tomita, who was promoted from DBJ Asset Management last year, will oversee the development of a growth equity platform targeting domestic SMEs.
Tallahassee, Florida
The $164bn pension plan, which is focused on getting more exposure to smaller managers in Europe, finds language and regulatory differences within the EU still tough to navigate.
Alaska
The $68bn investor has received 'unsolicited proposals' to partially outsource and invest its alternative asset investment unit.
Anna Foller, sustainability manager at the Sixth Swedish National Pension Fund, talks us through the fund’s response to climate change.
Giant investors
Which investors have made the biggest commitments to Blackstone’s flagship private equity funds?
Brumadinho in south-eastern Brazil.
The Church of England's deputy director of ethics at its pension board, Stephen Barrie, insists that GPs should have the capacity to analyse, understand and act on ESG data.
Eric de Montgolfier, Invest Europe
The private industry's growth warrants scrutiny from media and politicians, Invest Europe chief executive Eric de Montgolfier told Private Equity International.
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