The private equity firm is reportedly planning its first India dedicated real estate fund, targeting investors from the US, Europe and Asia.
The world’s largest 300 pension funds grew by nearly 12 percent last year, with assets hitting $10 trillion for the first time, a study has found.
The Blackstone Group has hired leveraged finance pro Vikrant Sawhney from Deutsche Bank.
Navis Capital Partners, the Asia-focussed buyout firm, has closed a fund more than triple the size of its previous fund, as the continent’s buyout firms prosper.
The UK private equity arm of Barclays Capital has closed its third European fund, having raising the entire capital from existing investors.
US pension giant CalPERS has launched a €400 million, Europe-focussed buyout initiative, to be managed by the private equity division of Scotland-based investment manager Standard Life Investments Group.
SVG, the London-based fund manager, increased its net asset value per share on the back of several realisations by UK buyout firm Permira in whose funds the majority of its capital is committed.
Former First Reserve director Craig Jarchow has been hired by Pine Brook Road, the New York firm led by former Warburg Pincus vice chairman, Howard Newman.
Noble Fund Managers has held the first close of its venture debt fund.
Two years after Hurricane Katrina ripped through New Orleans, RREEF and Loeb Realty are teaming up to acquire the Astor Crowne Plaza Hotel for $93m.