Graham Bippart

LPs may turn their backs on retail-friendly GPs, early ILPA survey data suggests

Early results from an ILPA survey suggest LPs are ready to draw a line in the sand when it comes to investing with managers chasing retail capital.

Shutdown will deliver more of what LPs want

The pain caused by compounding uncertainty will likely catalyze another stream of secondaries, which LPs say they’re clamoring for.

As it rebrands, should PE abandon its origin story?

The PE industry’s plucky roots fed its growth into an established industry with a famed reputation. But which part of that story is the one individual investors want to buy into?

Mixed bag: Evergreens increasingly drive demand for multi-asset CVs. Many LPs won’t be pleased

Many primary market LPs continue to be skeptical of continuation vehicles. But evergreen funds are already proving an all-but-insatiable source of demand for them. GPs will only be more incentivized to come to market, as a result.

Dan Gilbert-associated firm breaks target with third fund

Fund III will invest in mid-market companies across four sectors, ecommerce and marketing services, financial services and fintech, tech-enabled products and services and digital media.

NY-based Invidia Capital Management adds third partner in two months

Until July, the healthcare-focused firm’s sole partner was its founder, the former global head of healthcare private investing at Goldman Sachs

Secondaries will get big boost from Trump’s EO. But will retail? That depends.

The industry may well be redefined by President Trump’s executive order, signed yesterday, allowing 401(k)s to invest in private funds.

Europe's fragmentation was always a challenge for US investors. Now it's an opportunity.

For many US investors, Europe's complexities were a reason not to invest. Large market shifts underway are changing that.

Fears of overcrowding lead LPs back to private equity's origins

First-time fundraisers, almost by definition, offer an antidote to many LPs issues with, and fears about, today's PE market.

Mid-market firms need a 'right to win.' But most will fail: Ian Charles

General partners facing a bifurcated future for private equity need to think hard about what 'partnership' really means. 'If you're playing the old game, you're going to lose,' secondaries legend Ian Charles told NEXUS attendees.