Sam Sutton

The Office of the New York City Comptroller and trustees of the city retirement system expanded the $165.5 billion pension’s private equity emerging manager program by $500 million on Tuesday, August 4.

A coalition of state treasurers and elected officials will soon submit a letter to the SEC calling on the regulator to push for greater transparency and fee disclosures from private equity managers, peHUB has learned.

With private equity managers facing greater regulatory scrutiny from the SEC, New York City Retirement Systems’ private equity staff is helping new and emerging managers develop back-office functions by putting them in touch with service providers and more experienced general partners, Head of Private Equity Alex Doñé told Buyouts.

Silversmith Capital Partners set a $350 million target for its debut private equity fund, sources familiar with the firm told Buyouts.

Q&A with Martin Woll, Head of Institutional Savings for AXA US

First time private equity managers are collecting fresh capital at the fastest pace since the financial crisis, according to information released by private equity marketplace Palico.

The California Public Employees’ Retirement System’s five-year plan to reduce the number of general partners within its private equity portfolio includes a program that will allocate up to $2 billion to growing fund managers, according to documents and pension officials.

Private equity funds that use placement agents to help raise capital tend to underperform those that raise money on their own, according to a new study from SEC, University of Oregon and University of California, Berkeley School of Law researchers. “Anytime you see an intermediary in finance, you have to think to yourself, whoever’s hiring […]

What’s the fundraising environment like in Latin America? We sat down with John McCormick of placement agency Monument Group to find out.

An appellate court revived racial discrimination and breach of contract cases against the California Public Employees’ Retirement System by Centinela Capital Partners and its founder.