Helen de Beer

Number Crunch: Private equity’s AI uptake

The adoption of artificial intelligence is well underway for private equity firms, with cost reduction being a major focus.

Number Crunch: The road to cyber resilience

Costs and concerns related to cybersecurity risk have increased in the wake of AI.

Managers struggle with AI diligence due to pace of development

GPs including Bain and Apollo said at the UK Private Capital Summit that it is difficult to quantify claims around AI's contribution to value creation and cost reduction.

How quickly can secondaries scale?

The secondaries market offers a solution to PE’s liquidity dearth. Is that enough to drive volumes to $1trn in four years?

Number Crunch: Private equity’s contribution to job creation

Private equity-backed companies generally create more new jobs than their public peers, employing more than 13.3m people in the US alone.

Blue Owl reaches $10.6bn for latest GP stakes fund

The vehicle ‘will wrap up this year’ after multiple extensions to its projected timeline, CFO Alan Kirshenbaum says on the firm’s latest earnings call.

Number Crunch: The UK remains private equity’s cup of tea

Global macroeconomic concerns have pushed more investors towards Europe, leaving the UK to take a larger share of activity.

Number Crunch: Private equity M&A remains a big deal

The power of the global M&A market increasingly hinges on the presence of mega-deals.

Three lessons from the PEI 300

Our latest ranking of the industry’s biggest fundraisers serves as a reminder that there’s more to the state of play than meets the eye.

The new, the old and the up-and-coming of the PEI 300

This year’s PEI 300 ranking welcomes 35 new firms, with some old names struggling to maintain their historic highs.