Andy Thomson
Andy Thomson is a Senior Editor at PEI with responsibility for Private Debt Investor, the leading title focused on the world's private debt markets. Andy works closely with team members in London, New York and Hong Kong. He has been with PEI for many years, having worked previously on Private Equity International and Infrastructure Investor.
As the Beijing Olympics get underway, the world’s finest sprint hurdlers are not the only ones in China whose view of the finishing line is obscured by some rather large obstacles, writes Andy Thomson.
London-based Ashmore Investment Management is aiming to raise a new, “significantly larger” fund for investment in emerging markets just ten months after it closed its last vehicle on $1.3bn.
A fund led by former Standard Life executives has signed a strategic relationship with USS, a relatively recent entrant to the asset class.
Tuninvest, the Tunis-based private equity firm, has closed its second fund focused on the Maghreb region on €125m.
Milan’s Advanced Capital is carrying out the first phase of its global expansion plan.
Electra Partners has raised £100m to deploy alongside the capital of its main client, Electra Private Equity plc, as the latter returns to fully-blown private equity investment.
Given the identity of its guest speaker, a celebratory Guernsey Finance event was always likely to have a bitter-sweet outcome, writes Andy Thomson.
As speculation grows about the likely (under-) performance of leveraged deals struck over the last couple of years, Andy Thomson finds it is a question of what's in the portfolio.
Fundraising is proceeding at a fair clip amid signs that even the larger funds are still in favour. It is clear that investors are keeping the faith. But will they do so indefinitely, asks Andy Thomson?
Foreign private equity firms have been given clear investment guidance in China – not all of it easily palatable, writes Private Equity International's Andy Thomson.