Fund Management

Apollo Real Estate has plugged a gap in its European property coverage by acquiring a specialist debt company in London and now plans to raise a $1 billion fund.

Apollo Real Estate has plugged a gap in its European property coverage by acquiring a specialist debt company in London and now plans to raise a $1 billion fund.

Although panelists at the IFC’s 10th Global Private Equity Conference in Washington DC are sanguine about their deal flow in the emerging markets, some spoke of seeing a slowdown in the pace of fundraising.

The $15 billion of capital raised or targeted for infrastructure investment this week is one route for investors, managers and their banking partners to escape the credit mire, writes Nicholas Lockley

Although panelists at the IFC’s 10th Global Private Equity Conference in Washington DC are sanguine about their deal flow in the emerging markets, some spoke of seeing a slowdown in the pace of fundraising.

The $15 billion of capital raised or targeted for infrastructure investment this week is one route for investors, managers and their banking partners to escape the credit mire, writes Nicholas Lockley

The underwriting banks have provided buyers of quantities of more than £100m with a financing package which could secure them an internal rate of return of around 20 percent over four years.

The firm has hired Aaron Nieman to build an event-driven hedge fund platform targeting the Asia-Pacific region.

The firm has hired Aaron Nieman to build an event-driven hedge fund platform targeting the Asia-Pacific region.

The Chicago firm’s latest mid-market fund is larger than the sum of its three previous funds, but will continue its operationally-focussed strategy.