Fundraising

Vincenzo Morelli returns to the fray as TPG's new European operations pointman.

Governor Schwarzenegger wants CalPERS to become a ‘defined-contribution’ plan. Is this a harbinger of the end of days for traditional public pensions in private equity?

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

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.

In their quest to find a few good private investments, the professionals of TA Associates make thousands of phone calls and visit hundreds of companies every year. They often arrive at appointments in a private jet flown by the firm's chief executive officer, Kevin Landry. David Snow profiles the industry's biggest proponent of cold calling, and perhaps the only licensed pilot to also manage a private equity megafund

Joe Bartlett explains the fundamental characteristics of a pledge fund.

A private equity syndicate led by Newbridge Capital is reported to be close to acquiring a one third stake in Japan’s leading consumer finance group.

Market economies don't come much more turbulent than Russia's. To a growing number of private equity practitioners though, therein lies part of its attractiveness. In the wake of a major terrorist attack and a constriction of government controls, general partners active in the country tell Art Janik that Russian risk remains worth taking