Hassana Investment Company, the investment manager of Saudi Arabia’s $320bn General Organization for Social Insurance (GOSI) pension fund, is to allocate up to $500m in Brookfield Asset Management’s new Middle East-focused private equity fund.
An overwhelming majority of limited partners (LPs) are calling for greater transparency in waterfall distributions – the order in which investment returns are allocated – according to a new report by fund admin services provider CSC.
Bain Capital has acquired an 80% stake in private investment firm Aquila Group’s data centre subsidiary Aquila Compute, to accelerate plans to develop and operate sustainable data centres for hyperscale and AI customers across Europe.
The UK is to raise taxes on performance fees, or “carried interest,” for private equity fund managers from 28% to 32%, effective April 2025 — a smaller increase than many in the industry had anticipated, according to a report by Reuters.
Private-credit firm 5C Investment Partners, founded by former Goldman Sachs partners, has secured $1.6bn to launch its direct-lending initiative, targeting senior direct-lending deals, according to a report by Bloomberg.
ECI Partners, a growth-focused mid-market private equity firm, has made an investment in Independent Governance Group (IGG), a UK provider of professional pensions trusteeship and governance services, with existing investor LDC re-investing alongside ECI.
Investec Bank (Investec) has teamed with Ares Management Alternative Credit funds (Ares) to provide its fund solutions team with additional capital to significantly expand its lending capacity across key markets, primarily in the UK, Continental Europe, and the US.
Regional private equity firm NorthEdge has made an investment in Telford-headquartered EdTech software provider PebblePad in what os the the seventh deal from NorthEdge Fund III and the firm 17th technology investment in total.
Japanese lift maker Fujitec has held talks with a number of private equity groups about a potential $2.5bn buyout, with Sweden’s EQT said to be among the potential purchasers, according to a report by the Financial Times.
CAIA Association has launched the Private Equity Microcredential programme, designed to equip the private wealth management industry with the knowledge needed to understand the complexities of private equity.
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