Convoko Expands into Private Equity and Capital Markets
Convoko offers strategic consulting expertise that enables PE and capital markets businesses to increase revenue opportunities, manage and invreduce operational costs, and maximize the cap...
TPG Hires Ex-Goldman Banker for Consulting
TPG, the private-equity firm founded by U.S. billionaire David Bonderman, has hired Frederick Antwi, a former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker who was raised in Ghana, as a consultant to devise...
Private-Equity Consultants Are Under Scrutiny
Buyout firms deploy these professionals, often known as operating partners, as in-the-field experts when they acquire a company and set out to improve its operations. Their salaries are typically pai...
PE Group Takes Majority Interest in Vaco
As part of the same announcement, Quad-C also disclosed investments in two other companies: an education consultancy and a veterinarian company....
CalPERS’ Warns Fund Officials to Maintain Their "Disciplined Approach"
CalPERS’ real estate consultant warned fund officials must maintain their "disciplined approach" to underwriting in the "overheated market."...
Texas A&M Wants a New Investment Consultant
The university is seeking a consultant for its $3.2 billion cash pool and $883 million system endowment fund. Fund Evaluation Group is the current consultant. As of November 30, 2013, the Pool had a market value of approximately $3.0 billion.
Moline Police and Firefighter Pensions Searching for New Investment Consultant
The Boards of Trustees of the City of Moline Police and Fire Pension Funds are seeking the services of a consultant to assist in the search, evaluation and selection of investment managers.
L+M hires Joseph Sherratt to head bank finance and development monitoring
The consultancy Leadership and Management Ltd (L+M) has appointed Joseph Sherratt as Head of Bank Finance and Development Monitoring. ......
The Futility of the Endowment Model
An obvious implication of the Oxford studies is that anyone using – or contemplating using – a consultant should insist on a fully transparent record of their recommendations and an analysis of whether those recommendations resulted in risk-adjusted outperformance...
Doubts Raised on Value of Investment Consultants to Pensions
Individual investors are increasingly demanding transparency in performance track records, but pension funds — the biggest slice of the investment world — have conspicuously turned a blind...