Chelsea Stevenson

The $74bn pension is increasing its exposure to developing markets by creating a $300m separate account with Siguler Guff.

Clayton Dubilier & Rice has hired 29-year PepsiCo veteran John Compton as a new operating advisor.

The firm’s seventh buyout fund closed on its $1.6bn hard-cap after initially targeting $1.2bn. Catterton’s second growth fund hit its $400m hard-cap after three months in market.

The secondary sale and fund extension was approved by 100% of limited partners in FFC Partners’ Fund III.

Peter Pfister, former head of Asia-Pacific at Deutsche Bank, has joined Altius’ Singapore office as a partner and head of Asia-Pacific.

The $40bn retirement system is edging closer to its 10% long-term target allocation to the asset class.

Austrian insurance company UNIQA is selling a portfolio of 54 European and American fund interests as it works to implement a new investment policy.

Ashwin Roy left Citi Venture Capital International in early August to head the State General Reserve Fund of Oman’s private equity programme.

Competition for deals is heating up in the chemicals sector, an industry ripe with new investment opportunities, says American Securities managing director Scott Wolff.

The private equity-focused investment bank has moved Dominik Woessner from London to the firm's Asia office in Shanghai as secondary activity picks up in key markets.