Christopher Witkowsky

The Dutch pension administrator continues to reconnect with talent like Megan Bethke from its former private equity operation AlpInvest.

The firm, co-founded by David Leuschen and Pierre Lapeyre, has already deployed $2.3bn from the fund, which launched in late 2011.

The firm has closed its third fund on $425m after launching in January.

CVC, which is targeting up to €9bn for its sixth European Equity Partners fund, has offered LPs a first close discount.

Theodore Eliopoulos, CalPERS’ senior investment officer for real assets, has taken on the acting CIO role as Joe Dear battles prostate cancer.

In the wake of secondaries’ chief Nigel Dawn’s decision to leave the bank, UBS has named two co-heads to run the business.

Nigel Dawn, who has helped lead the secondary advisory operation at UBS, will step down by the end of July.

Brian Gimotty has joined the UAW Retiree Medical Benefits Trust to run private equity as the Trust works to boost investment returns.

John Robertshaw and Anthony Bowe will step down as co-heads of the bank’s Private Fund Group at the end of the year with successors already in place.

Visium has brought on four Paul Capital Healthcare executives, who will manage existing firm assets and launch the royalties operation for the hedge fund. The news comes as Paul Capital continues to struggle to raise its tenth fund.