Fundraising

The Carlyle Group picked up four management contracts from Highland Capital Management in its first European CLO deal.

Macquarie’s Mexican infrastructure fund has secured $700m in debt for what will be its first renewable investment and Latin America’s largest single-stage wind farm. PGGM and Mitsubishi have also bought stakes in the project.

Palio Capital Partners is trying to fill the lending gap for UK SMEs by providing senior debt and mezzanine loans with its new fund.

Palio Capital Partners is trying to fill the lending gap for UK SMEs by providing senior debt and mezzanine loans with its new fund.

Palio Capital Partners is trying to fill the lending gap for UK SMEs by providing senior debt and mezzanine loans with its new fund.

The extraordinary tale of a huge Dutch real estate fraud, a warning by the country’s Central Bank over property valuations and how the Dutch office market could be hardest hit by the unwinding of German open-ended funds.

The bank’s Strategic Partners team sweetened terms on its fifth secondaries fund, including not only committed capital, but fees and expenses that must be paid back to LPs, plus an 8% return, before the GP collects carried interest.

The $288 billion National Pension Service of Korea is poised to commit $300m to Blackstone’s latest opportunity fund as part of a strategy to increase its exposure to higher return investments. A beauty parade to select two more opportunity funds is expected to follow.

Korea's $288bn national pension is poised to commit $300m to Blackstone’s latest real estate fund as part of a strategy to increase its exposure to higher return investments.

The $234bn retirement system’s 2012 roadmap includes plans to engage the secondary market and develop a co-investment and managed accounts programme.