What's the real risk of private equity? Christian Diller and Ivan Herger test a number of different portfolios using historic performance data to arrive at an answer.
Barry Siadat has left Arsenal Capital to raise a fund focussed on global speciality chemicals.
London-based Evans Randall and its longstanding real estate investment partner and financier, Bank of Scotland, are using the capital to expand the European Property Fund.
Colony Capital founder and chairman Tom Barrack has lined up more than $1 billion in equity to start buying distressed debt and property companies as the firm searches for the bottom of the market.
Vermeer Capital, the turnaround firm, set up by seasoned veterans of French business and restructuring, has raised €75m for its first fund.
Forward-looking fund managers are preparing their portfolio companies for life in a deteriorating economic and financial climate, delegates at PEI’s Asia Forum in Hong Kong learned.
The diversified firm, jointly led by Charles Kaye, has surpassed its target by 25 percent, as investors look to emerging markets and growth capital for returns.
The global buyout firm has closed one loan fund while reportedly fundraising for another, as it looks to capitalise on credit market turmoil.
The US firm finds its $700m fund already oversubscribed after just a few weeks in the market. Meanwhile, $16.8bn in debt tied to its BCE deal is reportedly among the LBO loans lenders hope to sell to buyout firms.
Goldman Sachs, currently raising $7.5bn for infrastructure, isn’t the only investment banking giant looking to capitalise on the increasingly popular asset class.