| Sovereign wealth funds are adopting new approaches to private equity investments, we learned this week. Guy Hands, founder of London-based Terra Firma, told Sovereign Wealth Center that state-owned investors are showing interest in the firm’s innovative new model; unusually, Terra Firma’s remuneration will derive almost entirely from performance, not myriad management and service fees. That’s proving attractive to sovereign funds, several of which have recently complained about the spiraling costs of private equity managers.
Sovereign Wealth Center understands that the Abu Dhabi Investment Council (ADIC) is one of the funds that is actively working alongside private equity managers, rather than passively investing in funds. ADIC may be the fund that is rumored to be partnering with London-based Coller Capital, a specialist investor in private equity’s secondary market, to help restructure Irving Place Capital Partners III, a $2.7 billion buyout fund raised in 2006 by Irving Place Capital Management of New York...............................................Full Article: Source |