Magda Ali
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Tapping institutional LP demand for higher yields, AEA has passed the halfway mark for its third mezzanine fund.
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Hong Kong-based asset manager Shoreline Capital has held a final close on $303 million for a second Chinese distressed debt fund.
We examine the scheme’s decision to back established managers rather than first-timers.
TPG and Ivanhoé Cambridge’s complex acquisition of Woolgate Exchange explained.
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Ex-rogue trader Nick Leeson, who caused Barings Bank to collapse after completing £827 million of unauthorised trades, has been appointed as a principal at distressed debt advisory firm GDP.
Growth in the private debt market is driving demand from investors for funds of funds. But can the metric work?
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German insurance companies and pension funds are increasingly turning to real estate debt, attracted by a loophole in the Solvency II and Basel II/III capital requirements, according to iii-investments.
/March/News/cecile80.bmp "AXA private debt co-head departs")
AXA Private Equity’s co-head of private debt, Cécile Mayer-Lévi, has left the firm after it announced it would spin off from parent company AXA in the coming months.
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Gulf Capital is on course to hold a final close of its first credit fund at a hard cap of $300m by the end of the year, having launched fundraising in 2011.
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M&G has partnered with the European Investment Bank to provide debt finance to a new children’s hospital project in the UK.