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Endowments' over-exposure to private equity may affect fundraisings
Over a quarter of endowment plans, one of ... by data provider Preqin. ... The research group found that 27% of the ... Some investors over-allocated to private equity during the ... Larger endowments were more likely to be over-exposed, ... Against that backdrop, some large institutional investors have ... a ma...
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Finnish fund returns to test investor appetite
A Finnish private equity fund of funds whose ... Pohjola Private Equity Funds, a lower mid-market firm ... A spokeswoman for CCP Capital Partners, which Pohjola ... The firm has set a €150m ($225m) target ... ... n Europe, according to Preqin, with the buyout arm of...
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Infrastructure management fees 'too high'
Institutional investors are being put off infrastructure investment ... Jane Welsh, global head of private markets research ... However, she said "many of the infrastructure funds ... Her comments come as merger and acquisition activity ... by data provider Preqin, which said fewer than...
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Infrastructure attracts just one in five investors
Fewer than one in five institutional infrastructure investors ... assets research firm ... Of the majority who have not committed anything ... However, 40% of the polled investors will make ... urrent sentiment, according to Preqin. ... A spokesman for Preqin said: "Although fundraising over...
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Italian group raises Europe’s largest cleantech fund
Italian company Ambienta has raised Europe’s largest private ... The fundraising marks the firm's first fund and ... Ambienta's chief executive Nino Tronchetti Provera, who set ... Tronchetti said: "This first closing in hand gave ... to Data provider Preqin. ...
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Investors shied from new private equity commitments
The majority of investors in private equity funds ... yesterday, data provider Preqin said that 59% of investors made no new investment ... The reduction lead to a drop in fundraising ... investor data at Pre ... “This, combined with current market uncertainty, meant almost...
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LGT ahead of schedule with secondaries fund
A Swiss-based private equity fund of funds has ... imit, according data provider Preqin. ... Tycho Sneyers, partner at LGT, said: “With a ... 004. A spokesman for Preqin said the firm has deployed almost all of the fund’s capital....
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Hedge funds suffer management fee blues
Less than a fifth of all hedge funds ... Only 13% of funds set-up this year have ... This is a large drop on the figure ... The average fixed management fee being charged by ... The research, published by Morgan Stanley on Friday, ... made by researchers Preqin, that ...
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Hedge funds face life without 'two and 20'
The 60-year old fee structure used by the ... The industry’s standard “two and 20” fee model ... A 1970 article in Fortune magazine noted: "The ... to research firm Preqin, after what was the industry’s worst year on record in 2008. ... Preqin found that as large investors apply pressure...
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Exchange-traded funds race ahead of rival asset classes
The exchange-traded funds industry has outpaced other types ... tive assets information provider Preqin. The rise marks a 252% increase. ... powder, nearly quadrupled, Preqin said. But the market is significantly smaller than the ET...
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Green Deals go into the Red
Last year’s green deals have gone into the ... In the red corner, clean energy deals totalling ... The WilderHill New Energy Global Innovation index has ... Lower oil and gas prices have made clean ... to data provider Preqin. According to Osmosis’ Gorman, a backer of funds and co-inve...
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Private equity nose-dives in first half of 2009
The moribund state of private equity has been ... Buyouts in the sector totalled $24bn (€17bn) in ... Meanwhile, according to Thomson Reuters, private equity-backed deals ... Europe was hardest hit, Dealogic found, with a ... The research comes as the UK the Centre ... According to data from Preqin, the industry was...
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Investors push for improved terms on funds
ccording to data provider Preqin. This represents a 56% fall by volume and a 64% fall by value from the same peri ... a poll by Preqin of 50 leading inv ... 1.65%, according to Preqin. The new rate means investors are set to pay $1.2bn less in fees for the $472.8bn of funds closed so far this year or still being raised. It is t...
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Buyout firms take $1bn hit on fees
to data provider Preqin. The rate means investors are in line to pay $1.2bn less in fees for the $473bn of funds either closed so fa ... managing di ... first time since Preqin’s records began in 2000. The fee fell to 1.98% from 2.04% last year. For funds between $500m and $999m, the management fee rose slightly from 1.95%...
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Private equity fundraising hits five-year low
Private equity fundraising dropped to its lowest level ... A total of $45.9bn (€34.7bn) was raised for ... The total compared to $125bn raised in the ... Funds focused on the US were the most ... rising, according to Preqin. Nine fundraisin ... However, the number of active fundraisings has continued...
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One in 10 investors likely to sell fund commitments
Fewer than one in 10 investors in private ... ... Prequin said that while 9% figure was significant ... In December fund of funds SVG Capital capped ... and marketing at Pre ... “We haven’t seen that much activity in the ... “What’s happened is quite a lot of the ... "As a result, prices offered haven’t been very...
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Funds perform delicate balancing act
Over the past decade private equity fund administrators ... Fund administrators offer a series of services enabling ... These capabilities span from back-office accounting in the ... In its latest annual review, fund administrator Augentius ... equity research firm Preqin. ...
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Private equity assets under management grow to $2.5 trillion
A slowdown in distributions to investors helped private ... ding to data provider Preqin. ... The figure, which includes real estate funds of ... The overall rise for private equity is less ... Dry powder – uninvested capital – rose 3%...
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Carlyle Group raises $14bn for new fund
The Carlyle Group has raised $14bn (€10.9bn) for ... A source familiar with the situation confirmed a ... According to the source, the fund’s final closing ... Carlyle’s fundraising is an exception in a year ... There have been a few other exceptions, though ... UK data provider Preqin....
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