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Friday Letter 12 unusual monthsPEO takes a look at some the year's top challenges to the industry, as well as some encouraging indicators.
- Friday Letter Second lives for the mega funds
Pricing movements in the secondaries market suggest that even the largest pre-crisis buyout funds are winning back investors’ confidence.
- Friday Letter Going once, going twice
Auctions are back, with large firms lining up eagerly to deploy their capital.
- Friday Letter Renewing the vows
GPs who need a little more time to find deals are asking for extensions. LPs should use these requests as a chance to ‘re-underwrite’ the relationship.
- Friday Letter Getting ready for the fundraising rush
BC Partners’ €4bn first close was a ray of light for GPs at this week’s EVCA Investors’ Forum in Geneva, especially those among the large crowd getting ready to raise a new fund.
- Friday Letter New reality bites for Duke Street
The UK-based buyout firm’s decision to give up on raising a fund and instead work on a deal-by-deal basis highlights the difficulties facing firms that can’t offer scale or specialisation.
- Friday Letter Only partly responsible
GPs are struggling to live up to LPs' demands for ESG excellence. Some need to raise their game, quickly.
- 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.
- Former TIAA-CREF PE exec joins PineBridge
Armando Acosta left TIAA-CREF in January, the latest departure by an executive who helped build the company's alternatives programme. Others who have left include Shelley Zoler, Sheryl Schwartz and Holly Holtz.
- Carlyle and BC team for $3.5bn HSI buyout
The private equity duo part-financed one of the biggest deals so far this year using debt provided by six banks, proving lending appetite exists for even multi-billion dollar deals.