Toby Mitchenall & Jonathan Brasse
UK-based fund-of-funds manager SL Capital Partners intends to commit $50 million to $75 million per year in the United States over the next couple of years, said Jamie Ebersole, senior investment director in the firm’s Boston office. That yearly commitment amount will likely be divvied up among three to six general partners. The firm currently […]
UK-based fund-of-funds manager SL Capital Partners intends to commit $50 million to $75 million per year in the United States over the next couple of years, said Jamie Ebersole, senior investment director in the firm’s Boston office. That yearly commitment amount will likely be divvied up among three to six general partners. The firm currently […]
Times may be tough, but Institutional investors continue to search for new firms to replenish their alternative asset investment portfolios. U.S.-based emerging managers—loosely defined as buyout, distressed and growth equity firms raising their first or second fund—raised approximately $7 billion in the first half of 2010, or more than a fourth (25.5 percent) of the […]
How important was the Volcker rule in your decision to go independent from Bank of America? We’ve been talking to the bank for at least three years about re-positioning the business for third-party capital. As we came to a consensus with the bank three years ago, the markets really contracted, so clearly that wasn’t the […]
David BerchenbriterPartner, BerchWood Partners
Kohlberg Kravis & Roberts & Co. and The Blackstone Group may own the headlines for sponsoring the biggest buyouts. But a bevy of new LBO firms have quietly formed in recent years, buying and selling small and medium-size companies in less-traveled regions of the country.
The $23 billion Arizona State Retirement System, a relative newcomer to the private equity asset class, has made a handful of commitments recently and expects to make several more soon, as it builds its way toward a target allocation of 7 percent. As of March 5, the actual private equity allocation stood at 1.6 percent. […]
Coller Capital survey and news briefs about LPs in Illinois, Tennessee and Montana
Adam Tosh LP: Kentucky Retirement Systems Title: Chief Investment Officer Age: 38 Prior jobs: Senior Fixed Income Investment Strategist with MDL Capital Management and Director of Fixed Income at the Pennsylvania State Employees’ Retirement System Education: Degrees in Economics, Politics and Government from Ohio Wesleyan University Awards: One of Money Management Letter’s 2009 “Rising Stars […]
The $32 billion Teachers’ Retirement System of the State of Illinois recently hired an investment officer to administer its emerging managers program, which includes private equity as well as other asset classes. Kenyatta Matheny started at his new post on May 17. He previously was with the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, where he served […]