Amanda Janis
Amanda is the Director of Product Management for PEI, whose editorial titles include Private Equity International, Secondaries Investor, Buyouts, PE Hub, VCJ, Real Estate Capital, Private Equity Real Estate, Agri Investor, Infrastructure Investor, Private Debt Investor, Regulatory Compliance Watch and Private Funds CFO. She was previously the company's Group Managing Editor.
Private equity was among many poorly performing asset classes for the pension, which had an overall loss of almost $50bn.
The newspaper formerly owned by Avista is now controlled by lenders including Angelo Gordon. New additions to its board include local private equity chiefs and former WSJ publisher Gordon Crovitz.
Graeme Johnson will lead investor relations activities for the emerging markets investment firm.
The firm counts George Fisher, former chairman and CEO of the struggling photographic materials company, as one of its senior advisors.
Richard Parsons will advise the media- and communications-focused buyout firm, which is reportedly mulling a bid for the Travel Channel along with KKR and THL.
Blackstone’s chairman has told the SEC a firm like his would never have reached its level of success, which directly benefits pensioners, without placement agents.
The firm has invested 20% of Fund III's committed capital. It has also realised the real estate portion of its debut fund.
The private equity firm is looking to boost its energy portfolio wtih Nasdaq-listed Parallel Petroleum.
Richard Allsopp, who established and led UBS’ private placement division for 10 years, will join the London-based boutique as it further expands.
As it looks to deploy $20bn in dry powder, CVC has hired financial services industry veterans Bob Jenkins and Jim Sutcliffe to advise on the sector.