Fundraising

Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan is one of the world's most influential institutional investors, fusing both GP and LP activities. The recently promoted head of its private equity arm, Erol Uzumeri, spoke with Amanda Janis about Teachers' efforts to be a pension that isn't ‘your Dad's Cadillac’.

The US private equity firm continues to be active in the Latin American education market, most recently with the $40m acquisition of a Chilean university.

Wendel Investissement's smooth journey from holding company to global private equity firm has become a little bumpier.

Investors are increasingly concerned. Managers may have curtailed any investment excesses as credit markets have closed, but are they still in denial as capital market pain turns to economic reality?

The firm has invested or committed most of the funds it raised in its initial public offering in April last year, ahead of its two year target to invest the money.

The private equity firm’s ninth real estate fund – the largest ever private equity real estate fund raised – will take advantage of current market dislocation.

Who really wears the crown now the pain is starting to tell, asks Nicholas Lockley.

Who really wears the crown now the pain is starting to tell, asks Nicholas Lockley.

A new wave of alternative investment in the developing world is fundamentally different than past expansions, Harvard professor Josh Lerner told attendees at the 2008 Emerging Markets Private Equity Forum in New York, co-hosted by Private Equity International and EMPEA.

The FTSE 100 company, led by Philip Yea, remains confident that despite difficult market conditions, which may slow down its mid-market buyout business, its recently expanded growth capital team will be sheltered from the credit storm.