Fund Management

AIG's Latin America private equity group has deployed more than 16 percent of its recently closed $692m fund.

Travant Capital Partners has reached its first close within 10 months, raising hopes for the development of a domestic African private equity industry

Global private energy specialist First Reserve has broadened its investment scope with a $300m investment in barley-based ethanol production.

The Blackstone Group hasn't lost faith in its investment in Deutsche Telekom – yet.

3i, the London-listed private equity giant, is trading at a discount to net asset value but has grand plans to nearly double its assets under management by the end of 2010.

Private equity firms are queuing up to relieve the banks of their LBO exposure. Ironic? Typical more like.

PEAK PERFORMANCE 2008-06-01 Staff Writer ‘Long-term performance is what matters in private equity‘. This oft-recited statement is a truism in the sense that clearly what happens over a ten-year period is of more significance than, let's say, a mere 12 months. Keeping the thought firmly at the front of one's

HarbourVest Global Private Equity has reaped a 3.9 percent gain in net asset value almost exclusively from secondary interests in its private parent company.

Standard Life European Private Equity Trust has seen 185 percent gain in net asset value over the past five years and a 10 percent gain over the last six months.

One of Japan’s first institutional investors to embrace private equity will reportedly augment its investment in private equity and hedge funds by some $500m.