by Sebastian | Aug 8, 2022 | News
Pension funds are among those investors that sold a record $33bn of private fund investments in the first six months of 2022, according to a report by The Financial Times. Partly triggered by the recent steep decline in stock markets, investors are now selling stakes...
by Sebastian | Aug 8, 2022 | News
Private equity firm Carlyle Group Inc said on Sunday Chief Executive Kewsong Lee, 56, has stepped down with immediate effect months before the scheduled end of his five-year contract. Carlyle said in a statement it and Lee mutually agreed his contract which was due to...
by Sebastian | Aug 5, 2022 | News
BlackRock, the world’s biggest asset manager, has formed a partnership with publicly traded crypto exchange Coinbase to make crypto directly available to institutional investors. Mutual customers of Coinbase and BlackRock’s investment management platform,...
by Sebastian | Aug 5, 2022 | News
Top Tier Capital Partners has boosted its assets under management to $8.1bn thanks to a new fund close. The fund of funds specialist has closed Velocity Fund 4 on $925m to focus on late-stage climate tech co-investments. The main VVF4 has collected $503.5m to invest...
by Sebastian | Aug 5, 2022 | News
Siguler Guff, a multi-strategy private markets investment firm with approximately $16bn of assets under management, announced today that it has completed fundraising for Small Buyout Opportunities Fund V LP. Fund V was oversubscribed after five months of fundraising,...
by Sebastian | Aug 5, 2022 | News
ACON Investments, a private equity investment firm based in Washington D.C., announced today the closing of ACON Strategic Partners II, a new single-asset continuation fund of approximately $700m in connection with the partial sale of its ACON Equity Partners IV...
