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News
10 Sep 2010 16:00 GMT The $27.4bn endowment – one of the private equity industry’s most influential LPs – will continue to be an active player on the secondaries market, concentrating its relationships with ‘best-in-class’ managers.
10 Sep 2010 15:46 GMT Doughty Hanson’s €350m purchase of a business services company marks the first sale of Candover assets since the beleaguered firm revealed it would wind down.
10 Sep 2010 03:00 GMT Pying-Huan Wang helped tailor private equity funds of funds for wealthy individuals at Deutsche Bank and expanded the private equity coverage in Asia.
10 Sep 2010 02:00 GMT The group has hired former Swiss banking veteran Vincenzo Narciso for its placement team.
10 Sep 2010 05:49 GMT The Hong Kong-based firm has joined forces with All Nippon Airlines to create Japan’s first budget airline.
09 Sep 2010 15:39 GMT Kevin Albert, who joined Pantheon recently, left Elevation Partners because of uncertainty surrounding its ability to fundraise.
09 Sep 2010 15:47 GMT The San Francisco-based firm is investing from its sixth fund, which closed on $8.4bn in 2007. The firm has not yet dipped into its $8.8bn seventh fund, closed last year.
09 Sep 2010 10:40 GMT Bayside Capital's latest debt vehicle has exceeded its target, just two years after closing a $3bn distressed debt fund.
09 Sep 2010 02:00 GMT The US firm, together with Highlander Partners and MTS Health Investors, has generated a 45% IRR by on its investment in Chamberlin Edmonds.
08 Sep 2010 15:38 GMT The firm has named former partner at Pegasus Capital Rodney Cohen as head of its new US Equity Opportunity team, which will specialise in investments of up to $150m.
08 Sep 2010 15:01 GMT Venice European Investments, targeting infrastructure and private equity, is starting with €400m and aiming to reach a final close of €600m.
08 Sep 2010 16:05 GMT Kevin Albert has left Elevation Partners, which he joined in 2005. Albert will work in Pantheon’s New York office.
08 Sep 2010 02:00 GMT Former StanChart CEO and trade minister Mervyn Davies will advise the firm’s senior management team.
08 Sep 2010 14:24 GMT The firm has brought in former Laura Ashley veteran Hans Ouwendijk to run Vlisco, a Dutch maker of fabrics for West African clothing.
07 Sep 2010 15:59 GMT Sheryl Schwartz, who built TIAA-CREF’s alternatives platform into a $5.5bn powerhouse, will work on mezzanine and private equity deals as well as IR.

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Comment
The final, official demise of two alternative asset managers last week raises a number of important questions, but here's one especially occupying the minds of investors: how do you retain and reward the team charged with winding down a moribund manager's portfolio?
Perspectives
As the focus switches from a highly successful runner recruitment campaign to fundraising, we are delighted to report that the groundbreaking Marathon of Marathons – organised by Campbell Lutyens, PEI Media and UNICEF - has already sprinted past an incredible €1 MILLION of donations. How can you be part of the private equity industries’ most important fundraise of 2010?
From the wires