Annabelle Ju
Based in New York, Annabelle Ju covers North American institutional investors and fund regulation as the US Private Equity Reporter for Private Equity International and private funds management. She previously reported on market structure at Bloomberg and obtained her Master of Science degree from Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
The advisory firm and placement agent has made two appointments including a 12-year PAI Partners veteran as a senior advisor.
The Orange County Employees Retirement System, which commits 5.2% of its $12.5bn fund to private equity, expects to issue an RFP by mid-November.
Monica Arora will work on primary and secondaries portfolio transactions.
The global investment firm has acquired stakes in a fund that invested in Krispy Kreme UK from Deutsche Bank, a UK pension fund and a Swiss insurer.
The bill imposes more requirements on California-based public pensions to disclose private equity fees and was passed into law at the end of August.
The global investment firm, which manages $32bn in alternatives, expects secondaries opportunities to be bolstered by market volatility.
The US's largest public pension's secondaries strategy outperformed all others across three, five and 10-year periods.
The C$287bn pension fund also reached a new high for its overall asset value.
Some GP-led deals fail due to a lack of trust, and GPs should be completely transparent about any benefits they receive, according to law firm Proskauer Rose’s Howard Beber and Michael Suppappola.
The firm has created a new leadership role in investor relations and business development to be filled by Kevin O’Donnell at the end of August.