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Perpetual Private Wealth targets growth

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 22 OCT 2010
... nearly $26 million to $111.6 million, up 30 per cent up from the prior year. Earlier this week, Perpetual announced private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co (KKR) has made a takeover bid for the firm. KKR approached the firm to buy all of its ...

Cashed up AustralianSuper ready to pounce

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 22 OCT 2010
... won $200 million from the fund to invest in an unlisted debt portfolio, which holds a combination of property and private equity debt in Australia and New Zealand. In April, Australian Super allocated $500 million to QIC - an investment that makes up ...

KKR bids for Perpetual

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 18 OCT 2010
Private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co (KKR) has made a takeover bid for Perpetual. According to an ASX statement this morning, Perpetual announced KKR approached the firm to buy all of Perpetual's shares at a price of $38 to $40 per share. ...

More US investment banks close prop desks

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 1 OCT 2010
... incorporated the "Volcker Rule", which prohibits investment banks from engaging in proprietary trading and owning private equity or hedge funds.

Super funds flex muscle on alternative asset fees

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 30 SEP 2010
... creative in the way they approach that," said King, who specialises in alternative investments. King argued that private equity fees may be overstated in many cases. "If fees are buried in a listed vehicle they appear to be cheaper. We think there are ...

NZ Super to look for green mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 SEP 2010
... at the moment has been to get the governance policy right... getting to the detail of what it means to invest in private equity, in timber for example. "What it does is integrate these factors across your whole conviction on managers and the due diligence ...

AIST research exposes flaws in asset-based fee model

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2010
... compensate for the loss of future fee growth" the report found. For alternative investments, such as hedge funds and private equity, the AIST is resigned to the reality that "performance fees are simply the standard way of doing business" and in many ...

Investors eye $650bn 'niche' asset class

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 7 SEP 2010
... investors may now commit assets to specialist funds investing in shipping. It said this strategy is expected to have a private equity-like return profile.

Lazard Carnegie Wylie offloads local Dun & Bradstreet

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2010
... Bradstreet Corporation in the US has bought the independently-owned Australian and New Zealand operations from private equity firm Lazard Carnegie Wylie for A$233 million. The deal will place Australia in the centre of D&B Corporation's aggressive Asian ...

Darby buys into Mexican housing

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2010
Darby Overseas Investments, the private equity arm of Franklin Templeton, continue to put more money into the Mexican housing finance market after this month injecting funds into construction finance firm Controladora Vertice. Darby said that its financial ...