PCG Asset Management, a private equity asset management and advisory firm, has announced the opening of a Singapore office headed by Jean-Noël Odier. Odier was previously in change of BNP’s wealth management business for family offices in Asia.   ‘With the hire of Jean-Noël Odier to head up our international business development, it made sense to expand our geographic footprint into Asia,’ says David Fann, president and chief executive of PCG AM. ‘Recently, international investors have been actively increasing their allocation to the asset class and many of them are interested in leveraging our access to the best global private

Canadian low-cost wireless carrier BMV Holdings has announced that Omers Private Equity, the private equity arm of the Ontario municipal government pension scheme, has signed an agreeme

Low risk assets could offer private investors the best prospects of attractive returns in 2009 as the world’s leading industrialised nations face recession, according to Gary Dugan, the

After three strong quarters of resistance, private equity fund-raising slowed to a virtual standstill in the fourth quarter of 2008, according to analysis by Dow Jones Private Equity An

Even with the broader economic pullback in the final quarter of the year, European private equity firms managed to raise USD105.7bn across 156 funds in 2008, according to Dow Jones Priv

Huntington Capital, a private equity firm focused on growth capital investments, has announced the closing of USD78m in capital commitments for Huntington Capital Fund II, its second me