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Record dry powder levels in unlisted infra funds

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 31 OCT 2013
... combined total of $93 billion in dry powder primed to invest in infrastructure assets, according to alternatives researcher Preqin. The figure represents a 33% increase compared to the $70 billion available to unlisted infrastructure funds in December ...

Sovereign Wealth Funds surge to $5 trillion

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2013
... billion to their total assets under management over the last year to reach $5.38 trillion, according to new research from Preqin. The growth, which was attributed to the launch of a number of new funds as well as capital injected into existing funds ...

Insto investors want better marketing material

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
... standard of fund information as retail investors, reveals new research from specialist alternative investment researcher Preqin. Top of the problem list is that the investment performance information is poorly presented while too much superfluous information ...

Institutional investors to lift infra assets

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2013
... are planning to further increase their exposure to the sector, according to recent research from alternatives specialist Preqin. According to the group's latest monthly Infrastructure Spotlight report, 63% of public and private sector pension funds plan ...

Giant firms hold sway in infrastructure investment industry

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2013
... for 45% of the total raised by closed-ended infrastructure funds in the last decade, according to alternatives researcher Preqin. In its July edition of Infrastructure Spotlight, a regular report on trends in the global infrastructure investment industry ...

Macquarie leads global infra cap raising

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2013
... period in 2012, and Australia's Macquarie group is leading the charge. Research by alternatives sector consulting group Preqin reveals that in the first six months of this year US$14.5 billion was raised by 18 unlisted global infrastructure funds, up ...

Latin American pension funds eye PE

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2013
... more likely for limited partners in the region to become active investors in the coming years, investment research house Preqin said. Regulations like the Solvency II in the European Union and the Volker Rule in the United States look likely to limit ...

North American Endowments bullish on PE

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2012
... allocations to private equity by 50% over the past five years, according to a report from alternatives investments researcher Preqin. Endowments are the fourth largest institutional grouping in the US. Their allocations to private equity rose from 8.4% ...

Asian private equity grows rapidly

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2012
... global market was then estimated at $814 billion, triple what it is now. Reflecting the sector's regional optimism, a new Preqin Asian Private Equity Benchmark survey has found it outperformed the MSCI Pacific and MSCI EMF indices over the one, three- ...

SWFs jump 16% to $4.62tr

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2012
... North America attracting special interest, reveals new research. According to the alternative investments research group Preqin, 57%, invest into private equity, 80% of which is done through pooled funds and 20% directly. SWFs are also using their scale ...