PEI Staff
The co-founder of The Carlyle Group said at a Yale University private equity event that hedge funds currently enjoy advantages over private equity firms in offering financing to companies.
Texas Pacific's quest to buy an Oregon electric utility has been hampered by politics, scandal and regulatory strife
Private equity securitisation as a fundraising technique had all but disappeared from view. Then two collateralised debt obligations, SVG's Diamond and Tenzing from Invesco Private Capital, braved the market in 2004. Will there be others, asks Philip Borel
In 2002, Guy Hands took his team of professionals at Nomura Principal Finance Group and spun out from the Japanese securities house. Since then, Terra Firma has raised a multi-billion Euro fund and been trawling Europe for assets. But for Hands there has also been the small matter of growing and managing the business. In January, Philip Borel stopped by the group's new home on the South Bank of the River Thames to ask how things were going
The Crocus Investment Fund, one of Canada's labour-sponsored investment funds, halted trading and suspended redemptions in December amid concerns about overvalued holdings and general mismanagement. As the fund conducts a controversial internal review, many critics are pointing to Crocus as an example of the ineffectiveness of Canada's LSIF programme
When dealing with their bankers, LBO firms are calling the shots – for now
The European leveraged finance arm of Washington DC-based private equity firm Carlyle Group has recruited four professionals.
3i has confirmed its second senior hire from outside the organisation with the announcement that Simon Ball will join the firm as finance director in February 2005.
George Soros announced he is handing over greater control of his $12.8b Soros Asset Management firm to his sons, and is spinning off his real estate, credit and private equity divisions.
SVG Advisers, the fund advisory arm of London-listed private equity fund of funds SVG Capital, has raised €400m through a collateralised fund obligation (CFO) fund.