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Firm: Portfolio Advisors LLC Fund: Portfolio Advisors Private Equity Fund VII LP Target: $1 billion Amount Raised: $449 million Portfolio Advisors LLC, an advisory shop that over the last two decades has quietly amassed $30 billion in private equity and related assets under management, has hit at least $449 million on its seventh core fund […]

Pension: Colorado Public Employees’ Retirement Association Assets Managed: $39 billion (Dec. 31, 2010) Private Equity & Venture Allocation: 8.8 percent (Dec. 31, 2010) Private Equity & Venture Assets: $3.4 billion (Dec. 31, 2010) Target Private Equity & Venture Allocation: 7% Chief Investment Officer: Jennifer Paquette Meredith Williams, the executive director of Colorado’s $39 billion pension […]

Pension: Colorado Public Employees’ Retirement Association Assets Managed: $39 billion (Dec. 31, 2010) Private Equity & Venture Allocation: 8.8 percent (Dec. 31, 2010) Private Equity & Venture Assets: $3.4 billion (Dec. 31, 2010) Target Private Equity & Venture Allocation: 7% Chief Investment Officer: Jennifer Paquette Meredith Williams, the executive director of Colorado’s $39 billion pension […]

Pension System: Texas Teachers’ Retirement System Funds Managed: $110 Billion Private Equity Investments: $11.1 Billion (Aug. 31, 2011) Private Equity Allocation: 10.4% (Aug. 31, 2011) Private Equity Allocation Target: 12% Chief Investment Officer: Britt Harris Steve LeBlanc, the innovative head of private investments at the $110 billion Texas Teachers’ Retirement System, the nation’s sixth largest […]

Pension System: New York State Common Retirement Fund Pension Assets: $140.3 billion (Dec. 31, 2011) Private Equity Assets: $13.9 Billion (June 30, 2011) Private Equity Allocation: 9.5% of Assets (June 30, 2011) Target PE Allocation: 10% Chief Investment Officer: Marjorie Tsang (Interim) The New York State Common Retirement Fund made a series of four private […]

Pension Manager: New Jersey Division of Investment Assets Managed: $70 Billion (Jan. 31, 2012) Private Equity Assets: $5 Billion (Jan. 31, 2012) Private Equity Allocation: 7% (Jan. 31, 2012) Private Equity Target Allocation: 5.5% Chief Investment Officer: Timothy Walsh As it continues to rack up commitments from the nation’s largest pension funds, Warburg Pincus nabbed […]

Pension Manager: New Jersey Division of Investment Assets Managed: $70 Billion (Jan. 31, 2012) Private Equity Assets: $5 Billion (Jan. 31, 2012) Private Equity Allocation: 7% (Jan. 31, 2012) Private Equity Target Allocation: 5.5% Chief Investment Officer: Timothy Walsh As it continues to rack up commitments from the nation’s largest pension funds, Warburg Pincus nabbed […]

The New York State Common Retirement Fund made a series of four private equity commitments, together amounting to more than $400 million.

The Comvest Group has returned to its dual style of investing with the completion of fundraising for its second private equity debt fund, Comvest Capital II, with $250 million.