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Friday Letter Don't be a slave to the slidesData points and statistic-filled slide decks are important tools, but panellists at our Investor Relations Forum this week reminded peers that the power of storytelling – both with LPs and the general public – must not be forgotten.
- Friday Letter In praise of churn
Conventional wisdom holds that turnover at private equity firms is a red flag for investors – but should it be?
- Friday Letter Time to be bold
Two swallows do not a summer make, but the $6.6bn acquisition of Suddenlink this week, and the rumoured buyout of RBS-owned insurer Direct Line for a similar amount, suggest big buyouts could be coming back into fashion. Given the amount of dry powder that needs to be spent, it’s about time.
- HIG adds another director to London office
The London-based firm, which specialises in providing capital to small and medium-sized companies, has named former Hg Capital and Apax executive Carl Harring as a managing director.
- GPs sign on to private capital database
More than a dozen GPs have agreed to contribute data to a global private equity database being developed by the Private Capital Research Institution and Harvard Business School professor Josh Lerner.
- Time to be bold
Two swallows do not a summer make, but the $6.6bn acquisition of Suddenlink this week, and the rumoured buyout of RBS-owned insurer Direct Line for a similar amount, suggest big buyouts could be coming back into fashion. Given the amount of dry powder that needs to be spent, it’s about time.
- In praise of churn
Conventional wisdom holds that turnover at private equity firms is a red flag for investors – but should it be?
- Private equity eyes Russia’s depreciating infrastructure
Russia’s depreciating infrastructure and shrinking government budgets are driving the demand for private money to fund infrastructure projects, with private equity well-positioned to capitalise on the opportunity, write MRIF director Pavel Nazarov (pictured) and Squire Sanders partner Christopher Rose.
- AXA Private Equity buys $850m OMERS portfolio
The transaction comes as OMERS works to reduce its private equity fund commitment business and focus on direct investments.
- GIC and KIA buy into CVC management vehicle
Two sovereign wealth funds, GIC and KIA, and a third unnamed fund have acquired a 10% stake in CVC Capital Partners in a deal which will see them given preferential access to deals as well as a share of management fees and carried interest.