Unlike last year, when many endowments and foundations were on the sidelines, if not outright selling, at least a few say they’ll make pledges this year to the asset class. Still, we’re not talking especially big numbers: Three of these investors, Alfred I. duPont Testamentary Trust, Ball State Foundation, and Bryn Mawr College, collectively appear […]
The $8 billion California Institute of Technology, known as Caltech, is searching for a director of private investments, in part to help expand into secondary investments, distressed debt and infrastructure, while the $3.1 billion California Endowment is looking for a chief investment officer to help grow its private equity program. Pasadena-based Caltech needs someone to […]
The $123.8 billion Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, known as CPPIB, recently committed $400 million to a fund-of-funds program that will invest in Canadian small and mid-market buyout, venture capital and growth equity funds seeking to raise $750 million or less. The program will be managed by Northleaf Capital Partners, which was formed in 2009 […]
After a couple of years of virtual fund raising stasis, Europe's buyout giants are limbering up to re-enter the fray. Over the next 18 months a clear picture will begin to emerge of the winners and losers from the recession.
Energy and infrastructure private equity investor First Reserve Corporation has promoted Anastasia Deulina to director. Deulina is one of the firm’s 71 investment professionals whose expertise covers all of the sub-sectors of the global energy industry. The recently promoted Deulina joined First Reserve in 2007. Her responsibilities include deal origination and structuring, due diligence, execution […]
AEGON Asset Management, a subsidiary of Dutch financial services group AEGON, has launched a healthcare property fund with a target of £300m, the first fund the business has launched since the arrival of the property team from Aviva Investors in 2008. The fund will focus on the UK’s growing need for healthcare as its baby-boomer […]
Outlook for venture capital is poor
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Distressed investments and venture capital top the investment destination chart
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