Alex Lynn is an award-winning journalist and Hong Kong Bureau Chief at PEI Group, leading coverage of Asia-Pacific private markets for PEI Private Equity and editing its daily Side Letter briefing for subscribers. He joined the business in 2017, having previously covered EMEA markets from PEI's London office. Alex has a master's degree in Journalism from Kingston University. He can be reached at alex.l@pei.group.
Private equity funds posted a 13.6% pooled IRR over the past three years, significantly outperforming listed equity benchmarks.
2 min read · 13 November 2017
Investors and fund managers alike are waking up to the appeal of GP interest vehicles.
3 min read · 13 November 2017
The US's largest public pension made $3.3bn of commitments to private equity in the 2016-17 fiscal year, down from $4bn the previous year, according to documents released this week.
1 min read · 09 November 2017
Hisham Halbouny, the managing director of the Mansour Group’s family office, private equity fund and asset management arm, tells Private Equity International why it is betting big on direct investments.
2 min read · 08 November 2017
How Cinven replicated a tried-and-tested approach in the patents industry with its acquisition of intellectual property business CPA Global.
5 min read · 07 November 2017
Edward Bramson’s game plan has not always been clear, but his activist approach to Electra Private Equity has resulted in significant gains for shareholders.
3 min read · 06 November 2017
The fund of funds has chosen to support funds that have 'stayed in their sweet spot rather than those jumping in tremendously in fund size', according to partner Maninder Saluja.
2 min read · 06 November 2017
Joe Garrood joined car benefit company Tusker as a commercial director in late July after five years in ECI’s commercial team.
1 min read · 02 November 2017
The 500 largest fund managers held $2.5trn of alternative AUM at the end of last year, up 5% from 2015, according to the P&I/Willis Towers Watson global 500.
1 min read · 31 October 2017
LPs lacking knowledge of the market could drive up valuations, Jean Claude Bastos de Morais, chief executive of Quantum Global, tells PEI.
2 min read · 31 October 2017
