Insurers are poised to pump hundreds of billions of dollars into private assets over the next two years as they seek to overcome the highest inflation in four decades and heightened recession risk, according to BlackRock. Charles Hatami, head of the firm’s Financial...
It is no secret that limited partners like sovereign wealth managers and pension funds have been increasingly seeking to deploy capital on their own in recent years, as opposed to paying fees for others to invest on their behalf. Mubadala, a United Arab Emirates...
The total value of Dutch pension funds’ private equity investments has exceeded the €100bn mark for the first time ever, according to data from pension regulator DNB. Dutch funds’ private equity investments have doubled in three years’ time, from €50bn at the start of...
Goldman Sachs Group has closed a $9.7bn private equity fund, its largest since 2007, that seeks to invest in companies with an enterprise value of about $750m to $2bn, the bank said on Tuesday. The fund sits under the Wall Street giant’s asset management arm and...
Biffa Plc has agreed to be taken over by private equity firm Energy Capital Partners (ECP) in a deal valuing the British waste-management company at about $1.41bn. The 410 pence per share deal, which comes nearly three months after Biffa first announced that it was... 