La Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec is ramping up its emerging markets investment focus across asset classes including private equity after taking a hiatus for several years, according to Rashad Kaldany, executive vice-president in emerging markets at the institution.
Bruce Ingram has moved firms after working for more than a decade at GE Capital, where he recently headed up the Chicago office for GE Equity.
The University of Texas Investment Management Company’s bet on young, emerging venture firms over the past decade or so, including Union Square Ventures, Spark Capital and Foundry Group, continues to pay off. Funds from Union Square and Spark showed strong gains in UTIMCO’s most recent portfolio report and led the money manager’s collection of mid-decade […]
While limited partners pared back commitments to private equity funds targeting emerging markets last year, they remain most bullish on investments in Southeast Asia and Latin America in the near future, according to industry data aired in May at the International Finance Corp’s16th Annual Global Private Equity Conference.
During its first wave of examinations of sponsors, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has found widespread examples of the mishandling of fees and expenses, possible abuse of valuation methods and insufficient disclosure to limited partners.
Long-time fund-raisers Mac Hofeditz and Shannon Zoller have joined the San Francisco office of investment bank GCA Savvian Corp to launch a fund placement business. The firm has won its first two mandates, including one for University Ventures, and appears close to landing a third.
Huron Capital Partners won Buyouts’ 2013 Small Deal of the Year for its return in excess of 6x on Labstat International. Any other major milestones you’d like to share since then on the deal front?
Customized, separate accounts. They’re officially all the rage among big and mid-sized institutional investors, brightening prospects for advisers that are seeing less than stellar growth in their funds-of-funds businesses.
By now, the rhetoric concerning China’s recent development should be all too familiar. Not surprisingly, the economic miracle in China holds a magnetic attraction for international investors.
2000 Riverside Capital Appreciation Fund, the 2000 vintage buyout fund from The Riverside Company, rang up an IRR of 20.6 percent, exceeding the 20.5 percent top quartile threshold, based on a survey of public pension fund data by Buyouts. Béla Szigethy, co-CEO of Riverside, said the fund helped the firm continue its growth and expand beyond its launch in New York and Cleveland.
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