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 Institutional Investor Profile: Dan Kjerulf, Partner, Danske Private Equity
20/12/2005. Dan Kjerulf on the fund picker strategy, Danske Private Equity's preference for country-specific funds and on why it is important for new investors in the asset class to get advice from people within the private equity industry before starting to set up a first investment portfolio.
 Institutional Investor Profile: D Brooks Zug, Senior Managing Director, and George R Anson, Managing Director, HarbourVest Partners
23/11/2005. D Brooks Zug and George R Anson on long-term relationships with fund managers, brave steps, and why they think that fewer funds can be better than more.
 Institutional Investor Profile: Sven Berthold, Investment Manager, WEGAsupport GmbH
26/10/2005. Sven Berthold on WEGAsupport's investment strategy, increasing ticket sizes and on why the family office has allocated 20 per cent of its portfolio to investments in venture capital and private equity funds.
 Institutional Investor Profile: Henry Potter, Senior Banker, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
28/09/2005. Henry Potter on Central Europe, the Balkan states and why the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has been very active in Russia recently. Potter joined the bank some ten years ago. He is now one of a team of three senior people who run EBRD's funds programme.
 Institutional Investor Profile: Dr Hellmut Kirchner, Co-Founder and Managing Director, VCM Capital Management
21/09/2005. Dr Hellmut Kirchner on due diligence, arrogant fund managers and on why VCM Capital Management started raising its second mezzanine fund of funds straight after closing the first.
 Institutional Investor Profile: Marc der Kinderen, Managing Partner, 747 Capital
14/09/2005. Marc der Kinderen believes that you can only select the best investment opportunities if you analyse all the funds active in your segment. 747 Capital meets with every small buy-out and growth team in the US that is in the market with a new fund.
 Institutional Investor Profile: Daniel Allen, Managing Director, Wilshire Private Markets Group
10/08/2005. Daniel Allen on why the Wilshire Private Markets Group (WPMG) has chosen a solely discretionary model, why the organisation focuses on small and mid-market buy-out funds and how the firm has developed its access to leading private equity firms. Wilshire has raised six co-mingled funds of funds to date along with a number of single investor funds. WPMG will raise its seventh fund of funds which will target a closing in the second half of 2005.
 Institutional Investor Profile: Richard Laing, Chief Executive, CDC Group
03/08/2005. Richard Laing on CDC's mission and on how to invest successfully in Asia and Africa. Laing has almost 25 years of experience in the emerging markets. He says that investing in the poorest countries of the world is not just good developmentally but also makes sense financially.
 Institutional Investor Profile: Kazushige Kobayashi, Executive Vice President, Alternative Investment Capital
26/07/2005. Kazushige Kobayashi on Limited Partner-General Partner relationships, his firm's private equity strategy and on what he thinks Asia needs to do to attract more investors into the market.
 Institutional Investor Profile: Stuart Imeson, Head of Pensions and Investments, West Yorkshire Pension Fund
13/07/2005. Stuart Imeson on why West Yorkshire Pension Fund invests the majority of the capital dedicated to private equity investments with big funds and the role his organisation plays in Yorkshire. He also explains his portfolio strategy.
Institutional Investor Profile: Sheryl Schwartz, Managing Director of the Alternative Investment Group, TIAA-CREF
29/06/2005. Sheryl Schwartz on how to get into the best funds, on diversification, and on why excellent time management is the key to success in this business. In her 18 years with TIAA-CREF Schwartz has worked in five different areas: she started off in privately-placed debt and then went on to work in asset-backed securities before she started TIAA-CREF's secondary trading desk. Schwartz then worked in mortgage-backed securities. In 1997 she started the Alternative Investment Group.
 Institutional Investor Profile: Dr Hosein Khajeh-Hosseiny, Managing Director and Head of Global Private Equity Investments, Northgate Capital
15/06/2005. Dr Hosein Khajeh-Hosseiny speaks about his firm's strategy and describes his views on how fund of funds investment will evolve. Northgate Capital's goal is to provide institutional and family investors with identification of and global access to a select group of alternative investment opportunities. Northgate now has over $600m in assets under management and a strong, growing group of top institutional and family investors. The firm has offices in the United States and the United Kingdom.
 Institutional Investor Profile: Catherine Lewis, Founding Partner, Proventure
08/06/2005. Catherine Lewis on the stages of Proventure's investment selection process and her experience with GPs. Lewis co-founded Proventure in 1998 because she and her colleagues felt that there was a gap in the market to raise a fund of funds from institutional investors - mainly in Finland and Scandinavia - that would focus on investing in small and mid-sized funds. The founders developed a concept for a fund of funds that could deliver a unique service to investors and result in high returns. Proventure is located in Schaffhausen (Switzerland) and in Helsinki and has five partners: Lewis, Turo Levänen, Ulla Niemelä, Ari Jauho and Samuli Sipilä.
 Institutional Investor Profile: John Hess, Chief Executive Officer, Altius Associates
01/06/2005. John Hess on due diligence at private equity advisor Altius Associates, his firm's conservative investment approach and why he thinks few clients are better than many. Altius has a mixture of discretionary and non-discretionary clients, which include the California State Teachers' Retirement System, Teachers' Retirement System of Texas, Danish pension funds and UK institutions.
 Institutional Investor Profile: Barry Gonder, General Partner, Grove Street Advisors
03/05/2005. Barry Gonder on why all of Grove Street Advisors's portfolios are structured differently and on why he thinks that the risk associated with first-time funds is often overestimated. When Gonder joined Grove Street from the California Public Employees' Retirement System in 2001 he had already worked in investment for 12 years, having gained experience of both direct equity investments in companies and fund investments. At CalPERS he led the private equity programme from its infancy to $19bn in commitments - out of which $10bn had been invested - after five and a half years.
 Institutional Investor Profile: Urs Wietlisbach, Co-Chairman, Partners Group
19/04/2005. Urs Wietlisbach on why he thinks that bottom-up due diligence is not enough and why cash-flow and investment forecasts are important. Wietlisbach gives his views on recent developments in the private equity market and insights into the firm's strategies. He co-founded Partners Group together with Marcel Erni and Alfred Gantner, two colleagues from Goldman Sachs & Co.
Institutional Investor Profile: Lionel Bergeron, Investment Manager, Finama
08/04/2005. Finama Private Equity is the Paris-based private equity arm of French insurance company Groupama. Finama makes direct investments in French buy-outs as well as managing nearly €500m in fund of funds products, through its Quartilium brand name.
 Institutional Investor Profile: Ivan Vercoutère, Roberto Paganoni, Maximilian Brönner, Tycho Sneyers; Partners; LGT Capital Partners
22/03/2005. Vercoutère, Paganoni, Brönner and Sneyers of LGT Capital Partners give insights into fund of funds investing, how to choose the best general partners and how they see the market developing.
 Institutional Investor Profile: Ralph Aerni, Head of Private Equity, SCM Strategic Capital Management AG
14/03/2005. Ralph Aerni describes in detail what SCM's due diligence process entails, why his firm considers first-time funds and why he thinks it is important to actively involve clients in the process of making investment decisions.
 Institutional Investor Profile: Philippe Poggioli, Partner, Access Capital Partners
09/03/2005. Philippe Poggioli explains how Access Capital Partners puts together its portfolios. He says that to him discipline is the most important quality of a general partner because they have to remain cool-headed and withhold from investments when the climate is not right.
 Institutional Investor Profile: Dr Petra Salesny, Partner, ALPHA Associates
28/02/2005. Dr Petra Salesny on the challenges and opportunities that ALPHA Associates have faced as an investor focussed on CEE. As a limited partner with seven years of CEE investment experience the firm has built long-standing relationships with fund managers in the region.
   
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