Managers
Digital private equity manager Moonfare has expanded its operations to Australia, providing eligible investors in the country with access to carefully curated funds from top-tier private equity managers such as KKR, EQT, and the Carlyle Group.
Billy Rahm, the former Head of Real Estate at private investments firm Centerbridge Partners, has launched Everview Partners, a New York-based investment firm focused on real assets businesses across North America, according to a report by Bloomberg.
KKR & Co saw its shares drop to a two-week low on Tuesday after its Q4 AUM fell short of analyst expectations. Despite a 15% year-on-year increase to $638bn, the alternative asset manager missed the consensus estimate of $643.4bn, according to a report by Reuters citing LSEG data.
Blackstone has reported stronger-than-expected earnings for the fourth quarter of last year, fuelled by a resurgence in dealmaking and early signs of stabilisation in the troubled commercial real estate sector, according to a report by Reuters.
Investcorp, the Middle East’s largest alternative investment firm, is exploring the possibility of a public listing within the next three to five years as it targets doubling its assets under management (AUM) to $100bn, according to a report by Reuters.
A $14bn lawsuit filed by jailed Russian billionaire Ziyavudin Magomedov against US private equity firm TPG and Russian state-owned entities Rosatom and Transneft has been dismissed by London’s High Court, according to a report by Reuters.
Despite ongoing inflationary pressures, Centerbridge Partners sees significant potential in the US consumer credit market for 2025, and is set to target areas including consumer loans, home equity lines of credit (HELOCs), and data centre financing, according to a report by Bloomberg.
ChatGPT creator, OpenAI, has appointed Adebayo Ogunlesi, a private equity veteran and current CEO of Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), to its board, according to a report by Reuters.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has intensified its crackdown on the use of private messaging apps by the financial industry, targeting a group of alternative investment firms, including several PE managers such as Blackstone, Carlyle, and KKR, for violating recordkeeping rules, according to a report by Investment Executive.
By Nick Lawler, Managing Director and Head of Secondaries, Churchill Asset Management: Last year was estimated to deliver $140bn+ in global secondaries volume, the largest year on record and definitively surpassing the prior high threshold of ~$130bn in 2021, according to an early 2024 report by Evercore. The segment’s growth results from a confluence of factors, including new pools of capital and entrants, proliferation of active portfolio management and a global LP base searching for liquidity.
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