News & Analysis

Blackstone is piloting a new interactive LP portal that will allow investors to delve into the firm’s performance data across asset classes, geographies and sectors like never before. It will also allow LPs to import data from other GPs into the Blackstone system.

The firm has named former partner at Pegasus Capital Rodney Cohen as head of its new US Equity Opportunity team, which will specialise in investments of up to $150m.

Former StanChart CEO and trade minister Mervyn Davies will advise the firm’s senior management team.

Offshore LPs invested with China-based private equity managers are concerned at the conflict of interest between USD-denominated vehicles and their RMB-denominated counterparts. But what can be done?

The final, official demise of two alternative asset managers this week raises a number of important questions, but here's one especially occupying the minds of investors: how do you retain and reward the team charged with winding down a moribund manager's portfolio?

A New Jersey firm that once managed $28bn filed Chapter 11 this week; founder Alfred Eckert and president Peter Frank already have negotiated new jobs with Black Diamond Capital.

The drama surrounding the relationship between CalPERS, Apollo and controversial placement agent Alfred Villalobos continues. Investment staff at the $206bn pension allegedly questioned the relationship as long ago as 2006.

Long-standing fixture of the European private equity landscape Candover has decided to continue life only as a realisation vehicle, returning money to shareholders as investments are sold.

A recent study suggests 43 percent of private equity GPs think incentives have never been greater to spin out – but in reality it is not that easy. PERE Magazine September 2010 issue

Following in the footsteps of a long line of mega-firms, TPG is dipping a toe into real estate. But is it motivated more by opportunity or the need to deploy capital?