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Firm: Capital International Private Equity Funds Fund: Capital International private Equity Fund VI Target: $2.5B Hard Cap: $3B Placement Agent: MVision Private Equity Advisers By Stephen Aldred Capital International Private Equity Funds of Hong Kong has closed a $3 billion global emerging markets private equity fund, the largest fund of its kind in five years. […]
Henry Kravis, co-chairman and co-CEO of KKR, speaks at Thomson Reuters' PartnerConnect 2012 conference in New York.
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Video date: April 3, 2012
Kelly M. Williams, managing director and global head of the Credit Suisse Customized Fund Investment Group, pulls no punches in describing the big challenge that prospective general partners have in winning a commitment from her team. Delivering a keynote address earlier this month at Buyouts Texas, a conference hosted by this magazine, Williams first expressed […]
Name: Thomas DiNapoli Role: New York State Comptroller; Elected fiduciary of the New York State Common Retirement Fund Assets: $147 billion Private Equity: 9.5% of assets; $13.9 billion in invested capital Annual Return (as of June 30, 2011): 21 percent When Thomas DiNapoli was appointed New York’s comptroller in 2007, all hell was about to […]
Chip Schorr, a senior deal-maker focused on technology, has reportedly left The Blackstone Group to launch his own firm, Augusta Columbia Capital, in the latest in a spate of firm spin-outs. Augusta Columbia is in the early stages of raising its fund, and will seek $750 million, according to Dow Jones, which first reported the […]
Unspectacular ReturnsInvestment Multiples On Private Equity PortfoliosNew Jersey State Investment Council: 1.11x as of May 31 Texas County & District Retirement System: 1.05x as of Dec. 31 Public Employee Retirement System of Idaho: 1.18x as of Sept. 30 Source: Financial Reports It’s not often that I come across a stash of private-equity return data from […]
The three keys for emerging manager success in today’s fundraising market? Grove Street Advisors, an advisory firm that got its start in the late 1990s managing an emerging managers program for California Public Employees’ Retirement System, says it’s the following: team and strategy cohesion, operational know-how, and a good track record. (Grove Street prefers groups […]
Back in the day, buyout firms such as Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. raised billions from investors largely on the strength of their financial and deal-making expertise. Not so today. When it comes to the next generation of firms, pensions, endowments and other investors in private equity want to see not just financial wizardry but […]
Firm: Muller & Monroe Asset Management LLC Titles: President and Founder (Rice), Managing Director/Chief Investment Officer (Loud) Assets Under Management: $458 million in separate accounts and co-mingled funds of funds Headquarters: Chicago, Ill. Staff: 11 You won’t find a Muller or a Monroe at Muller & Monroe Asset Management, a Chicago-based fund of funds firm […]