What is DSC Quantitative? Jeff: The idea, really simply and at its core, is to provide a more efficient way to access the return streams of private equity and venture capital. Art: Two of the products we’ve developed and launched in conjunction with Thomson Reuters are an investable private equity index and an investable venture […]
ContinueThe title of a recent white paper by Ben Crawford throws down a gauntlet to GPs and LPs: “Every Institutional Operations Team Needs to Be Better at Benchmarking Private Equity Investments.” “Benchmarking in general is a hard discipline,” said Crawford, senior product manager of performance and quantitative analytics at Backstop Solutions Group, which provides portfolio-monitoring […]
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California Public Employees’ Retirement System is in talks under which BlackRock would take over its $26 billion [...]
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U.S.-based buyout and mezzanine fundraising surged in the first half of September. Over the past [...]
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Minnesota Board of Investments realized over $1.8 billion in distributions from April 2016 through March [...]
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With tensions on the Korean peninsula ratcheting up, the defense, aerospace and government-services sectors are [...]
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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, a middle market PE firm known for investing in software and healthcare services, [...]
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The chief operating officer of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts’s capital markets team, Peter Glaser, left the [...]
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With its buy of CenterSquare Investment Management, Lovell Minnick Partners has struck its first real [...]
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Glendon Capital Management has raised more than $2 billion for a second fund that won’t be drawn [...]
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Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners’ latest fund could reach as much as $7 billion in size, according [...]
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The crumbling of Anthem Inc.’s mega-deal with Cigna Corp. largely set the stage for the [...]
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NovaQuest Capital Management is targeting $1.5 billion for its fifth fund that focuses on drug [...]
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California Public Employees’ Retirement System board chose Meketa Investment Group to replace StepStone Group as [...]
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Trivest Partners, the Coral Gables, Fla.-based firm that has become one of the country’s most [...]
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ABC Financial Services, which provides billing and payments software for health clubs, is up for [...]
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San Diego City Employees’ Retirement System will likely commit around $375 million to private equity [...]
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