Polaris wins PSERS support for $1.4b Japan fund
Polaris Capital Group has won support from Pennsylvania Public School Employees’ Retirement System (PSERS) for a Japan buyout fund of up to JPY150 billion ($1.4 billion), twice the size of its 2016 vintage predecessor.
Having launched with a target of JPY130 billion – JPY150 billion represents the hard cap – Polaris Fund V reached a first close of JPY81.6 billion in November 2019. A series of interim closes took...
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