Gregory Roth
Pension: Pennsylvania Public School Employees’ Retirement System Assets Managed: $47.9 Billion (Dec. 31, 2011) Private Investments: $9.7 Billion (Dec. 31, 2011) Private Equity: $7.2 Billion Private Investment Allocation: 20.4% Private Investment Allocation Target: 20.5% Chief Investment Officer: Alan Van Noord The Pennsylvania Public School Employees’ Retirement System, with $48 billion in assets, has plunged deeper […]
Pension: California Public Employees Retirement System Total Assets: $236 Billion (March 12, 2012) Private Equity Assets: $32.6 Billion (Dec. 31, 2011) Private Equity Allocation: 14% (Dec. 31, 2011) Private Equity Target Allocation: 14% Chief Investment Officer: Joe Dear The $236 billion California Public Employees Retirement System renewed its contract with Pension Consulting Alliance, its private […]
Pension System: Florida State Board of Administration Assets Managed Overall: $154 Billion (Jan. 31, 2012) Assets Managed (Main Pension): $126 Billion (Dec. 31, 2011) Private Equity Allocation (Main Pension): $5.8 Billion (4.6%) Private Equity Target (Main Pension): 5% Executive Director & Chief Investment Officer: Ash Williams It took more than six months to fill the […]
Just across the Sacramento River from its giant rival, the $149 billion California State Teachers’ Retirement System might as well be Avis to CalPERS’s Hertz. Sure, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System is bigger ($238 billion) and gets more headlines. But lately, CalSTRS has been making some waves of its own.
Firm: Riverstone Holdings Fund: Riverstone Global Energy & Power V LP Target: $6 Billion Riverstone Holdings, a private equity firm in the red-hot energy sector, has begun raising money for a new $6 billion fund, Riverstone Global Energy & Power V LP, according to recent reports. The new fund would be the firm’s first since […]
Georgia’s public pensions, long prohibited by law from investing in alternative investments like private equity, may now be closer to allowing such investments after the state Senate voted 50-to-4 to change the rules. The bill nevertheless excludes any allocation changes to the state’s biggest pension fund, the $48 billion Georgia Teachers’ Retirement System. The state […]
Firm: Advent International Fund: Advent International Global Private Equity VII LP Target: $9.4 Billion Assets Under Management: $26 Billion Advent International, a Boston-based firm known for its global focus, is gearing up to start formally raising its seventh private equity fund, Advent International Global Private Equity VII LP, a behemoth targeting $9.4 billion that will […]
Thomas H. Lee Partners is not in fundraising mode, so who are you meeting here in Berlin at SuperReturn? It’s going to be a while before we start raising another fund, toward the end of the year at least. In our current fund (the 2006 vintage, $8 billion THL Equity Partners VI LP), we still […]
Snapshot Firm: Advent International Fund: Advent International Global Private Equity VII LP Target: $9.4 Billion Assets Under Management: $26 Billion Advent International, a Boston-based firm known for its global focus, is gearing up to start formally raising its seventh private equity fund, Advent International Global Private Equity VII LP, a behemoth targeting $9.4 billion that […]
Georgia’s public pensions, long prohibited by law from investing in alternative investments like private equity, may now be closer to allowing such investments after the state Senate voted 50-to-4 to change the rules. The bill nevertheless excludes any allocation changes to the state’s biggest pension fund, the $48 billion Georgia Teachers’ Retirement System. The state […]