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AMG buys Pantheon Ventures

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2010
... second quarter of 2010, is subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals. Pantheon is a global private equity fund-of-funds manager, delivering private equity investment solutions to a broad range of clients for over 25 years. Pantheon ...

VFMC underperforms across four asset classes

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2010
VFMC has underperformed its benchmarks across Australian equities, private equity, property and inflation-linked bonds over 12-month period to December last year amid a series of reshuffles in senior management and tough investment markets. The investment ...

Alternatives by any other name

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2010
... alternative strategies in the report. Alternative energy, commodities, currency, global infrastructure, managed futures, private equity and real estate were defined as alternative asset classes. However, the firm could find no market consensus for distressed ...

Asia ushers 2010 with caution

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2010
... teens, and at these levels, the supply of credit will be filled by creditors - and investment opportunities in private equity and private debt will grow accordingly, Mercer anticipates. Other key trends include the continued growth of emerging markets ...

Now that's challenging

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2010
... allowed to trade for their own accounts - known as proprietary trading -- and that they cannot own hedged funds or private equity funds. This means banks would be allowed to make profits only by servicing clients. How exactly is still up in the air. ...

Frontier reweighs alternatives

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2010
... first in the line up for 2010. "We are now looking at the opportunities in quite a number of alternatives, like private equity, absolute return strategies (including hedge funds) and infrastructure (particularly unlisted property)," he said. Opportunities ...

Funds under management post record jump

RAINMAKER GROUP IS THE OWNER OF FINANCIAL STANDARD  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2009
... below its September 2008 level. The five fastest growing sectors, in percentage terms, over the past 12 months were private equity, sub-advisory, overseas sourced FUM, ethical/SRI and boutique manager FUM. Rainmaker said the return of boutique managers ...

PE firm pays NY fund $20m in compensation

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2009
David Leuschen, the founder of private equity firm Riverstone Holdings, has been ordered to pay US$20 million to the New York State Common Retirement Fund. US Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo announced an agreement with Leuschen to resolve Leuschen's ...

Future Fund to grow investments team

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2009
... on around 21 per cent in cash (down from 31 per cent back in September), Neal said the fund is keen to invest in private equity and infrastructure assets but has struggled to find well-priced investments. "We've been trying to build our private equity ...

Fidelity's Bolton back in the game

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2009
... that Bolton's return to portfolio management is a clear signal of the region's potential. The group has been a private equity investor there since 1995 through Fidelity Asia Ventures and manages over US$4 billion in Chinese equity portfolios.