Europe
1 February 2012
A trend for active ownership is helping limited partners shed the dated stereotype of being merely passive participants in the private equity space, according to Nathalie von Niederhäusern, co-head of investment management at Swiss Re's private equity investment arm.
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1 August 2011
Private equity has held up better than expected during the downturn, according to Dirk Meuleman, fund manager focused on private equity and infrastructure at Netherlands-based pension fund administrator Mn Services.
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21 July 2011
Tim Creed, executive director in charge of European investments at fund of funds Adveq, caught up with AltAssets to discuss the most attractive investment destinations in Europe, the charms and hazards of turnaround, and how the firm’s earlier predictions of a “Tripolar” investment world have played out.
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2 July 2011
Pantheon Partner Helen Steers sat down with AltAssets to discuss how the private equity industry is being transformed as a result of the financial crisis and why fundamental shake-outs in this asset class never really happen. Plus, the anticipated impact on exit sources with the newfound availability of debt; what she really thinks about secondary buy-outs, fees and terms; and why success amongst certain GP funds boils down to ‘super active equity’.
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11 June 2011
Sam Robinson, head of global investment at UK fund of funds investor SVG Advisers, met up with AltAssets to discuss the return of secondaries, the hazards of Asia, and being optimistic about Europe without being bullish.
Robinson has played a significant role in the creation, investment and portfolio management of all fund of funds managed by SVG Advisers, including the Diamond, Asia and SPEFOF programmes.
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6 May 2011
Henry Potter on Central Europe, the Balkan states and why the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has been very active in Russia recently. Potter joined the bank some ten years ago. He is now one of a team of three senior people who run EBRD's funds programme.
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7 March 2011
AltAssets caught up with Alan MacKay to learn where he and his team see the best return opportunities for the decade ahead and why he feels good about being an LP in today’s global private equity market.
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23 November 2010
Francois Gamblin caught up with AltAssets to discuss new secondaries trading platform SecondaryNet, why attempts at private equity secondary trading platforms have failed in the past, and how to grow the asset class from two per cent of the private equity market to eight per cent in the next few years.
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26 October 2010
Robert Savage on the secondaries market during the downturn, the dangers of fire sale fund acquisitions, the strengths of the mid-market, and the predicted $20bn of secondary dealflow in the pipeline as portfolio valuations bounce back.
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17 August 2010
Katharina Lichtner on Capital Dynamics’ bullish stance on secondaries, on the evolution of due diligence processes, on LPs defaulting on capital calls and on the devaluation of private equity portfolio companies.
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