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LeapFrog Investments is a different kind of private equity firm, one that succeeds not just by making money, but by making a positive impact on society.
More and more limited partners seem to be complaining that their general partners are expensing costs to the fund that they expected the GP to pick up the tab on.
The exit scene has been gaining momentum over the second quarter, building on the laid-back market witnessed in Q1.
U.S. buyout shops raised $2.2 billion in investor commitments over the second half of June, resulting in $41.9 billion being raised for both buyout and mezzanine funds since the start of the year. Overall fundraising is way down from last year, when firms managed to raise $85 billion by the end of the second quarter.
Following strong economic growth in the 1980s, Japan hit a snag.
Pension: California Public Employees’ Retirement System Assets Managed: $263 billion (May 31, 2013) PE Assets Managed: $32 billion (May 31, 2013) PE Allocation / Target: 12% / 14% (May 31, 2013) Chief Investment Officer: Joe Dear The California Public Employees’ Retirement System plans to sell its entire 4 percent stake in The Carlyle Group LP […]
Private equity firms are always looking for juicy investments to sink their teeth into. Increasingly, restaurant chains are at the top of the menu.
Praful Mittal, a partner at Chicago-based McNally Capital Partners, talks in this video about his firm’s approach to serving family offices through its investments in private equity, primarily buyouts, along with its direct investments and co-investment strategies.
The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, one of Canada’s top investors, said on Tuesday it had a 13.0 percent rate of return on its investments in 2012, bringing net assets to a record high C$129.5 billion ($127.4 billion), according to sister news service Reuters.
150 investigators swarm HQ Medicare billing is in question Firm took stake in 2011 The Scooter Store, which is backed by Sun Capital Partners, has been raided as part of an ongoing investigation, according to sister Web site peHUB, which cited a number of media reports. CBS reported that more than 150 investigators swarmed the […]