Web-based portal on child rights and equity launched in South Africa 3 September 2012 – A new policy-oriented knowledge hub on child rights and equity, known as Policy Action Network, or PAN: Children, was made public last week.
The group, whose capital includes $50 million from a private equity fund launched in 1996, completes six to ten deals a year.
But most recently, Renaissance was in headlines for its new ties to Google Capital, the new growth equity fund launched by the technology giant.
Oaktree's Asia-focused private equity fund, launched in 2006 and served as the main vehicle for the firm's Chinese investments, is winding down.
Their experience highlights several of the costs — tangible and intangible — of resorting to an "involuntary rebrand," from lawyers' fees, lost brand equity and launching a new brand name to embarrassment, distraction and frustration.
dA working group on PBF and equity was launched recently - see http://www.healthfinancingafrica.org/3/category/alex%20ergo/1.org/3/category/alex
The Equity Fund, launched in July 2002, works by systematically identifying the poorest families and children in Svay Rieng, one of Cambodia's poorest provinces with 500,000 inhabitants and 690 villages.
Several private-equity firms launched bids for Tribune last month.Vietnam gained the formal approval of the World Trade Organisation to become its 150th member.
Last year Fosun, a Chinese conglomerate, and Ardian, a French private-equity firm, launched a joint bid to take Club Med private.
In May Morgan Stanley raised $4 billion for its new infrastructure fund, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR), a private-equity firm, launched a global infrastructure practice, and Pennsylvania announced that Citigroup and Abertis, a Spanish toll-road operator, had won an auction to lease the state's turnpike.
