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Institutional-investor-backed Capital Constellation on Monday announced a strategic partnership with Motive Partners, which invests in financial-services-focused technology businesses. This is the third 2018 investment for Capital Constellation, a collaboration of Alaska Permanent Fund, RMPI Railpen, the U.K.’s largest pension fund, and investment adviser Wafra on behalf of Public Institution for Social Security of Kuwait, the national retirement […]

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Japan Investment Corp, the new state-backed fund, set up a $2 billion fund, JIC-US, to invest in biotech and drug-discovery startups. California-based JIC-US will use a venture capital fund to invest in seed and early-stage companies as a GP or LP, according to a news release. It will also consider joint investments. JIC-US will make use of a […]

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New Jersey Division of Investment committed up to $300 million to two private-markets strategies, investing in small and middle-market buyouts as well as travel-and-leisure businesses. The state, which has $79.43 billion in combined pension assets, also reported that it was somewhat behind its private-markets pacing targets for the year, although a spokesman said that it still […]

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Emerging managers raised more than $2.4 billion in the past few weeks. Nine firms raised over $100 million. Six of those nine were private equity firms. Real estate service company C-III Capital Partners outraised all other firms. It raised more than $487 million of a targeted $600 million. New MainStream Capital, created as a spinoff […]

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David Rubenstein’s Declaration Capital, a recent addition to the family office world, is actively investing in companies and building out its team. Rubenstein co-founded Carlyle Group with William Conway and Daniel D’Aniello in 1987. The private equity behemoth currently has $210 billion in assets under management and 31 offices across six continents. Rubenstein and Conway […]

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Connecticut State Treasurer Denise Nappier is considering a $50 million allocation to Connecticut Private Equity Horizons Fund, which focuses on small and mid-market funds that are managed by women-owned, minority-owned, emerging or Connecticut-based investment firms. Nappier presented the investment opportunity at the Oct. 24 meeting of the $30 billion Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds’ investment advisory committee, […]

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Pennsylvania State Employees’ Retirement System’s board at its Oct. 23 meeting moved to commit up to $100 million to TSG Consumer Partners’ eighth fund. This is a new relationship for the pension system, part of its strategy of making fewer and larger commitments to best-in-class funds, according to PA SERS’s 2018-19 investment plan. How much TSG8 […]

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Tricor Pacific Capital, which for nearly two decades operated as a North American private equity investor, has returned to the market as a family office. The new Tricor, led by Managing Partner Rod Senft, who co-founded the PE firm in 1996, was officially unveiled this week. Its goal is to invest Senft family and partner capital […]

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Pennsylvania Public School Employees’ Retirement System issued its first carried-interest report and said its GPs earned 19.41 percent of investment profits as carry from the program’s 1985 inception through 2017. The report, presented by Chief Investment Officer James Grossman at the Oct. 12 board meeting, reflects the agency’s continued execution on a 2017 plan to […]

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GPs are raising more and more Asia-focused funds, but LPs remained focused on pursuing North American private equity opportunities, according to recent research from Preqin. In its latest quarterly report on PE and venture capital, Preqin found that 44 percent of all funds in market are targeting Asia, including six of the 10 largest funds, […]