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Commonfund Capital raised additional capital for a feeder to its recently closed fund and sophomore secondary and co-investment funds, according to SEC Form D filings. Commonfund’s Capital Venture Partners XII feeder fund raised $100 million from one investor, the filing said. Its 12th venture capital fund closed at $432 million in October, Buyouts reported. Commonfund is […]

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Montana Board of Investments recently sold off a $70 million chunk of its private equity portfolio, part of an overall plan to reduce its exposure to funds of funds that were used to build out its portfolio in the previous decade. The board, which manages $11.2 billion in its consolidated asset pension pool, also made […]

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Connecticut State Treasurer Denise Nappier is mulling a $100 million re-up to Constitution V Fund, which invests in venture capital funds. The fresh commitment would create two additional investment pools in the existing Constitution Fund V, according to documents from the treasurer’s office.  The $150 million Constitution Fund V, split into two parts called Series […]

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Hicks Equity Partners, the private equity arm of Thomas Hicks’s holding company Hicks Holdings, raised more than $24 million for two specialty funds, a Form D said. Hicks became famous for the Dr Pepper deal his PE firm, Hicks & Haas, executed in the 1980s. And he faced intense media scrutiny later for his sports investments in the Texas Rangers, Dallas Stars, Liverpool soccer […]

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Iowa Public Employees’ Retirement System hired Kalytix Partners for consulting services to set up its internal investment management system, a press release said. The pension system issued a request for proposal in April. The three finalists were C&A Consulting, Funston Advisory and Kalytix. IPERS awarded the contract to Kalytix for a flat fee of $110,000 […]

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Crossroads Group represents the interests of the Gabrail family. Originally from Iraq, Nashat Gabrail moved to the U.S. in the early 1980s and set up an oncology practice in Ohio. He was an early adopter of administering chemotherapy in his clinic, which later became a research facility for oncology clinical trials. Paul Gabrail, his elder […]

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Spurred by declining growth worldwide and lower interest rates and returns, Asia-Pacific sovereign-wealth funds are increasingly allocating to alternative strategies. Most sovereign funds invest directly in private markets but will partner with specialist PE managers for new and esoteric strategies, a recent Cerulli Associates report said. Private equity firms with unique strategies, strong track records […]

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Pennsylvania Public School Employees’ Retirement System is mulling a re-up to Bain Capital’s fourth Asia fund, its October meeting agenda said. Bain Capital is targeting $4 billion for this fund, Reuters reported in April. The pension system committed $480 million to four Bain funds over the years. PA PSERS committed $130 million to Bain’s third […]

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Investors in third-quarter 2018 were simultaneously frustrated by the power held by in-demand general partners and yet competing for their approval across a wide variety of fund types. GPs raised $135.8 billion over the first three quarters of 2018, versus $174.9 billion in the year-earlier period. While 2018 isn’t on pace to match 2017’s frenzied […]

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Stanford University’s investment portfolio generated an 11.3 percent return as of June 30, 2018, down almost 14 percent from the previous-year return of 13.1 percent. While Stanford beat Harvard University, which generated returns of 10 percent, it did not perform as well as other peers. Massachusetts Institute of Technology returned 13.5 percent, University of Pennsylvania returned 12.9 percent, Yale University returned 12.3 […]