AlpInvest Partners

Partners Group’s $15bn capital raise for its latest PE buyout programme highlights LPs’ growing attraction towards non-traditional fund structures.

The alternatives giant this week outlined an ambitious four-year plan to grow its $246bn business across strategies including private equity, credit and secondaries.

Our interactive presentation breaks down private equity capital raising by strategy, geography, manager and more, and includes a list of the biggest funds in market as of January 2021.

Four of the 10 largest PE funds raised last year were for secondaries. Will the strategy come to dominate fundraising or has it had its day in the sun?

It is only when GPs play their part in climate change solutions that LPs can make their portfolios resilient and operational in the long-term, say panellists at PEI’s Responsible Investment Forum.

Presenting two new global categories of Preferred Equity and Direct Secondaries, plus winners across LP Sale and GP-led Deal of the Year, and more.

The Q4 year-on-year drop from $7m to $1m is due to the run-off of legacy assets and several large fundraisings having yet to come to market, said co-CEO Glenn Youngkin.

AlpInvest Partners’ Wouter Moerel and Chris Perriello, managing directors and co-heads of the firm’s secondaries investment team, discuss growth in the secondaries market, why they don’t use leverage and what a worst-case scenario could look like.