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Jeff Edwards, a former private equity executive at the Teacher Retirement System of Texas, left the pension system in July and joined NovaQuest Capital Management, according to two people with knowledge of the move.
Thoma Bravo Managing Partner Carl Thoma sounded the alarm earlier this year: LPs should expect private equity returns to come down, and should probably give GPs less money.
Thoma Bravo, which is pre-marketing its 12th flagship fund, is wrapping up fundraising on its debut middle-market fund, Thoma Bravo Discover Fund, according to a marketing document sent to LPs this week and seen by Buyouts.
Calpers, private equity, pension fund
CalPERS board member accuses staff of “perpetuating” PE mythology System says it fights hard to lower fees Should make clear when and why it rejects fund terms I have a modest proposal for the folks over at the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, who have been taking quite a drubbing lately. Be more open. Specifically, whenever […]
I have a modest proposal for the folks over at the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, who have been taking quite a drubbing lately.
Does Brazil’s economic crisis represent a good opportunity to put money to work?
Audax offers 1/30 or 2/20 fee/carry split Fund V cap at $2.25 bln, not clear if that includes GP commitment Firm already raised $1.5 bln Audax Group offers a choice of management fee/carried interest structures in its next flagship private equity fund: a 1 percent management fee and 30 percent carried interest rate, or the […]
Harvard endowment’s chief executive officer sounded the alarm on high valuations in private equity and venture, even while reporting the private asset classes helped drive the endowment’s overall return.
Private equity returns 11.8 pct in fiscal 2015 Venture returns 29.6 pct Harvard not “over-committing” to illiquids in frothy market Harvard endowment’s chief executive officer sounded the alarm on high valuations in private equity and venture, even while reporting the private asset classes helped drive the endowment’s overall return. “Private equity valuations are now, on […]
AT&T, Canterbury Consulting, private equity, pension
Brian Bolcar, former private equity official with the Virginia Retirement System, joined the North Carolina Treasury as a private equity portfolio manager, according to a spokesman for the system.
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