Private Equity

Michael Baruch

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The ex-Riverstone exec shaking up the PE fund model

Grafine Partners' founder and chief executive Elizabeth Weymouth on increasing LP sophistication and opportunity in the cracks of the blind-pool model.

4 min read · 29 June 2021

News & Analysis

Chart: Top 50 managers and their strategies visualised – 2021

Growth equity, secondaries, impact funds and long-hold vehicles cropped up in this year's list of the industry's biggest firms and the strategies they manage.

1 min read · 17 June 2021

News & Analysis

SoftBank Vision Fund CFO: Predictive analytics ‘will drive value’

Smarter analytics will 'forecast future performance, identify untapped opportunities, expose hidden risks, and assist in strategic decision making,' Navneet Govil, SoftBank Vision Fund CFO, said at PEI's CFO & COOs Forum last week.

2 min read · 16 June 2021

News & Analysis

Coller Capital's PE Barometer in five charts

'The fact that half of all private equity investors think ESG investing will in itself boot their portfolio returns should be a wake up call to anyone who still thinks ESG is a 'nice to have' or a PR tool,' said founder Jeremy Coller.

1 min read · 13 June 2021

News & Analysis

Schroders to launch democratising public-private blended products

Individual investors would like to invest in private equity but need a product, according to Schroders’ head of private equity.

3 min read · 08 June 2021

News & Analysis

How PE learned to stop worrying and love inflation

The current debate about whether the inflation spike we are seeing is ‘transitory’ should be reframed as ‘reflation vs sustained inflation’, according to Commonfund’s Ryan Driscoll.

3 min read · 02 June 2021

PEI 300 2021: Buy high, sell higher – the mid-market rolls on

Rising multiples have not weakened enthusiasm for a segment that has historically outperformed the rest.

3 min read · 01 June 2021

News & Analysis

Investors seek solace in highly targeted single deals

Appetite for exposure to assets via co-investments and single-asset secondaries defied the pandemic last year.

4 min read · 27 May 2021

News & Analysis

NBA Africa deal mixes sports and emerging markets

Helios Investment Partners has backed a deal that values NBA Africa at $1bn in enterprise value.

3 min read · 25 May 2021

Investors

Top Tier eyes secondaries via debut of dedicated Europe fund of funds

The fundraise is part of total capital commitments of $1.5bn across the most recent series in the firm's family of funds.

2 min read · 25 May 2021

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