Private Equity

Investment Allocations

Emerging Europe hits highest deal count in 2019 – report

PE deal volume continues to increase year-on-year as the region’s larger and faster-growing economies provide a hunting ground for international and domestic GPs.

2 min read · 22 January 2020

Texas TRS to co-underwrite co-investments

The pension system is in the process of expanding the direct investment portion of its private equity portfolio from 26% to 35%.

2 min read · 22 July 2019

Investors

China’s tech revolution creates diversification headache for LPs

A growing number of Chinese businesses are being marketed as TMT-based, an industry conference in Hong Kong has heard.

3 min read · 03 June 2019

Connecticut to boost diversification with Europe and secondaries

The state’s treasurer will add an additional $200m per year in a transition plan to increase private equity allocation.

2 min read · 14 March 2019

Credit Suisse's Murphy: LPs want control

The bank has launched a four-strong directs and co-investment team amid soaring investor demand for greater control over their private equity holdings.

2 min read · 18 April 2018

PE firms press advantages to snap up tech assets

Strategic buyers are starting to lose out to private equity firms which are leveraging tech advantages in their portfolios, according to a Silicon Valley-based partner at Hogan Lovells.

2 min read · 09 January 2018

Domestic capital returns to Australian PE

Domestic funding of private equity firms jumped from 17% in FY16 to 63% in FY17, data from the Australian private equity association revealed.

2 min read · 16 November 2017

HgCapital revels in seller’s market

The firm returned 3.4 times as much money back to its investors as it called from them in the first half of the year, according to its listed feeder fund’s results.

2 min read · 11 September 2017

Japan Post Bank seeks domestic co-investments – exclusive

The $1.9trn investor is ramping up co-investments with mid-market managers in its domestic market as improving corporate governance among Japanese companies is opening up carve-out opportunities.

2 min read · 06 September 2017

Nordic Capital raises allocation for non-Europe healthcare

Details of the Scandinavian investor’s strategy for Fund IX were revealed in materials presented to a US pension.

2 min read · 23 August 2017

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