North America
15 February 2012
Private equity could be in danger of becoming a victim of its own success, unless investors can free themselves from outdated and poor-performing fund commitments, says Joncarlo Mark, former senior portfolio manager in CalPERS’ Alternative Investment Management (AIM) programme.
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13 January 2012
With a private equity investment programme that has yielded almost 20 per cent over the past two decades, Teachers’ Private Capital – the C$12bn private equity investment arm of the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan – is under constant pressure to maintain its performance.
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18 July 2011
David Ford, managing partner of wealth manager Gatemore Capital Management, discusses his firm’s approach to asset allocation, the desirability of transparency among private equity fund managers and the stability of the US relative to other developed markets.
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5 July 2011
John Rompon, managing partner at Chicago-based McNally Capital works directly with more than 350 family offices to help them make and manage their investments in private companies and private equity funds.
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26 May 2011
Jamie Ebersole, director at the US office of UK fund of funds investor SL Capital, talks to AltAssets about the American private equity industry’s recovery from the financial crisis, the shifting balance of power between LPs and GPs, the potential impact of regulatory uncertainty in the US, and why everybody’s watching the mid-market in 2011.
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4 May 2011
Kathy Jeramaz Larson, executive director of the Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA), on why LPs and GPs need to go back to traditional models.
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30 November 2010
Renatto Barbieri of New York-headquartered commodities-focused investor Galtere sat down with AltAssets to discuss the firm’s upcoming $1bn private equity agribusiness fund, the looming “choke point” for food prices, destructive agricultural policy, and the dangers of subsidy reliance.
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6 May 2009
Cruttenden on why US venture is an exciting area at the moment, on why Europe is coming of age, on why there is no substitute for experience in private equity and on why mentoring matters in private equity.
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6 May 2009
Delman on being a value-added investor, on succession problems, on why we'll see no more mega-funds, on the fragility of limited partnerships, on managing expectations and on the importance of secondaries.
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5 May 2009
Gerken on the sophomoric attitude of some private equity fund managers, on why the industry missed an opportunity in the disclosure debate, on why he's positive about private equity and on the difficulty of judgment calls.
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