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.
Family offices and HNWIs are expected to gain importance as a source of capital, according to an IPEM survey.
2 min read · 14 January 2019
Banks are changing the way security notices are issued to LPs following the firm's collapse.
4 min read · 11 January 2019
The Silver Lake alumni in contention could point to the pension's highly successful investment in the tech specialist.
1 min read · 09 January 2019
Most of the 10 largest funds raised last year were significantly larger than the previous fund in that family.
1 min read · 09 January 2019
Last year firms raised $352bn for the asset class, an almost 26% drop on the previous year, according to preliminary PEI data.
2 min read · 08 January 2019
The Tunisia-headquartered firm will target around $500m for AfricInvest Fund IV, according to a source with knowledge of the fund.
2 min read · 08 January 2019
An interactive chart mapping returns by net IRR and total-value-to-paid-in across some of the firm's private equity funds.
1 min read · 07 January 2019
A key talking point with LPs was how UK firms are preparing for Brexit, managing partner Charles Ind told PEI.
2 min read · 03 January 2019
PEI looks at the largest funds in market at the start of 2019.
1 min read · 02 January 2019
Hefty funds coming to market and the potential for cheap deals after Brexit are on the minds of the continent's PE practitioners.
2 min read · 02 January 2019
