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The UK mid-market investor has hired 4 investment professionals across 3 offices.

Molly Murphy will be responsible for implementing asset allocations adopted in January, including an increased private equity target to 8%.

The investment bank's European head of private capital advisory has departed after 11 years.

Philipp Patschkowski?, a principal who joined the secondaries house in 2008, will help build the US firm's European private equity business.

The recruitment comes in response to an increase in the firm’s European client base over the past year.

The UK firm has appointed David Walsh from the Bank of Ireland to review the possibility of launching into the asset class.

Roland Lescure, who more than doubled private equity assets during his tenure at the Canadian pension plan, is running for representative of French expats in North America in the French legislature.

Following the departure of credit focused Peter Miholich late last year, another senior investment professional left the firm in April.

Maurizio Bottinelli has joined as a senior principal as the firm continues to invest its €2bn sixth fund.

The Finnish firm, which has been investing on a deal-by-deal basis, will launch its first fund later this year.