Graham Bippart

Verdane: Why North American LPs are looking to Europe

The Oslo-based firm is expanding its North American LP base as investors there increasingly look to Europe for outsized returns.

Peering into the future of private markets at NEXUS

Some 900 people are set to attend our NEXUS event in Orlando next week, among them nearly 300 LPs.

LPs prepare for World War Z

Investors predict there’s a coming wave of zombie funds in PE. Will they be overrun or face them head on?

DOWNLOAD: LPs go from overallocation to private equity to underallocation

Institutional investors in North America were mostly overallocated to PE last year, according to Buyouts data. But portfolio value declines helped drive a plurality of them into underallocation.

Women in PE: Call for nominations

We'll consider candidates from all aspects of PE, including dealmaking, fundraising, value creation and more. The deadline is February 13.

History offers lessons for PE's new retail era – they should not be ignored

We would do well not to plod, zombie-like, into a repetition of yesterday’s mistakes.

Containing the zombie pandemic in PE

The population of zombie funds is huge, and likely growing. Detecting early warning signs is the key to value preservation.

LP-GP alignment ‘is on the line’, says LP Sentiment Survey

Institutional LPs are unimpressed by GPs chasing individual investors, according to an ILPA survey.

Zombie funds explode to all-time high

Research provided to Buyouts by TREO indicates the global volume of AUM of tail-end funds, or TEFs, hit $829bn in 2024, up 24% from 2023.

How GPs are trying to get unstuck

Many managers will continue to raise continuation vehicles, but others are taking more drastic action to escape the inertia of a stalled market.