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Insurers to ramp up private equity exposure in 2014
Insurers are rethinking their investment strategies and beginning to increase their exposure to private equity. Some are even looking at it from an asset-liability management perspective.
Photo apps: negative returns or still developing?
As Facebook loses favour with the cool kids, hipsters are turning to Instagram, Snapchat or the latest photo sharing app to get their social network kicks. The question is, how long will consumersт love of photo apps last and are they still worth the...
Hill joins Aztec board
Stephen Hill, Aztec Group
HarbourVest throws Motion lifeline
HarbourVest Partners has extended the life of Motion Equity Partnersт fund to enable it to exit portfolio companies.
Vision's Van de Steen joins SVP
Johan Van de Steen, Strategic Value Partners
Adveq promotes three
Funds-of-funds manager Adveq has promoted Viswanathan Parameswar, Sasha Kugler and Patrick Küntscher to the role of executive director.
Acquisition finance: breaking with tradition
Acquisition finance
2013 buyouts: overall value stabilises around €75bn
The overall value of European private equity-backed buyouts has hovered around the тЌ75bn mark for the third year in a row, with last year's deals totalling тЌ74.7bn.
Weekly round-up: rolling out the red carpet
Private equity and the state; alternative thinking for acquisition finance; the allure of luxury goods in Italy... Here is your weekly round-up of industry analysis provided by unquote"
Apollo raises $17.5bn for Fund VIII
Apollo Global Management has bucked the trend of large-cap players downsizing their funds compared to pre-crisis efforts: the firm has amassed $17.5bn for its latest global vehicle after a little more than a year on the road.
Palamon promotes three
Palamon Capital Partners has promoted Julian Carreras, Pascal Jean-NoУЋl Noth and Gary Pritchard to partners.
Acquisition finance: alternative thinking
Despite bringing much-needed liquidity and competition to the debt market, many GPs are still wary of alternative lenders. Alice Murray pits traditional lenders against these alternatives to find out which has the upper hand.
Amadeus promotes two to partnership
Pat Burtis, Amadeus Capital Partners
Mutual understanding: Private equity and the UK government
PE and the State
Hogan Lovells promotes Woodhouse to partner
Keith Woodhouse, Hogan Lovells
HarbourVest promotes Flower
HarbourVest Partners has named Tim Flower as managing director in a promotion from his previous position of principal.
Regulators still missing the mark
Almost half of financial service professionals do not believe that any national regulator has managed to strike the correct balance for investors and growth, according to a global survey by Kinetic Partners.
Weekly round-up: Swedish industry dodges a bullet
Nordic Capital wins landmark court case, KKR's Scheiber on gender quotas, private equity investments in the robotics sector... Here is your weekly round-up of industry analysis provided by unquote"
Former 17Capital IR manager joins Low Carbon
Louise Ward, Low Carbon
Are European GPs ready to embrace the robotics revolution?
As robotic solutions creep into our everyday lives, Kim Richters looks at private equityтs relationship with the increasingly important sub-sector.
Q&A: KKR's Silke Scheiber
Q&A: KKR
Weekly round-up: strengths and weaknesses
An exclusive Q&A with French minister delegate Fleur Pellerin; Silverfleet hiring Annette Wilson as head of IR; an in-depth look at Palamon in the wake of its fundraise... Here is your weekly round-up of industry analysis provided by unquote"
GP focus: Palamon Capital Partners
Palamon in focus