Washington state forms new relationships with Wellspring, New Mountain
Washington State Investment Board formalized new relationships with two private equity firms at its meeting [...]
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Five Questions with DSC Quantitative Group, CEO and Founder Art Bushonville and President Jeff Knupp
What is DSC Quantitative? Jeff: The idea, really simply and at its core, is to [...]
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Need to Meet: Ben Crawford, Senior Product Manager, Backstop Solutions
The title of a recent white paper by Ben Crawford throws down a gauntlet to [...]
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Editor’s Letter: The weird, wild world of CalPERS private equity
California Public Employees’ Retirement System is in talks under which BlackRock would take over its $26 billion [...]
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Market at a glance – September ramps up PE fundraising and deal-making
U.S.-based buyout and mezzanine fundraising surged in the first half of September. Over the past [...]
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LP Scorecard: Minnesota generates $1.8 bln from PE
Minnesota Board of Investments realized over $1.8 billion in distributions from April 2016 through March [...]
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Taking Flight: As geopolitical tensions rise, PE eyes aerospace and defense deals
With tensions on the Korean peninsula ratcheting up, the defense, aerospace and government-services sectors are [...]
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Idaho sees record distributions from PE in Q1
Idaho’s Public Employee Retirement System’s private equity portfolio returned $95.4 million in the first quarter, the [...]
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Waud Capital scoops up Anovia, TrustCommerce in payments drive
Waud Capital, a middle-market PE firm known for investing in software and healthcare services, has [...]
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Peter Glaser leaves KKR’s capital-markets platform
The chief operating officer of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts’s capital markets team, Peter Glaser, left the [...]
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Lovell Minnick clinches first real estate deal with CenterSquare
With its buy of CenterSquare Investment Management, Lovell Minnick Partners has struck its first real [...]
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Glendon tops $2 bln, heads for $2.5 bln cap for distressed investments
Glendon Capital Management has raised more than $2 billion for a second fund that won’t be drawn [...]
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Stonepeak’s third infrastructure fund could hit $7 bln
Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners’ latest fund could reach as much as $7 billion, documents released by [...]
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Anthem-Cigna breakup gives rise to Summit’s HealthSun sale
The crumbling of Anthem Inc’s megadeal with Cigna Corp largely set the stage for the sale of HealthSun, [...]
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NovaQuest targets $1.5 bln for fifth drug finance fund
NovaQuest Capital Management is targeting $1.5 billion for its fifth fund that focuses on drug [...]
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CalPERS replaces infrastructure consultant StepStone with Meketa
California Public Employees’ Retirement System’s board on Sept. 18 chose Meketa Investment Group to replace StepStone [...]
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Trivest breezes to $600 mln dry close on sixth fund
Trivest Partners, the Coral Gables, Fla.-based firm that has become one of the country’s most [...]
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ABC Financial, software provider for health clubs, goes up for sale
ABC Financial Services, which provides billing and payments software for health clubs, is up for [...]
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