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  • Side Letter: Partners Group, BlackRock's wealth tie-up
    Private Equity News & AnalysisPEI Staff- 12 September 2024

    Partners Group and BlackRock are seeking to revolutionise private wealth fundraising with a new model portfolio solution. Plus: lawyers say the exit winter is starting to thaw (at least in some markets). Here's today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.

  • Side Letter: Partners Group sheds staff
    Private Equity News & AnalysisPEI Staff- 4 September 2024

    Partners Group has shrunk its headcount after going 'soft' on underperformance during the pandemic. Plus: the worlds of secondaries and tokenisation collide. Here's today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.

  • BlackRock on the future of secondaries
    SponsoredStaff Writer- 2 September 2024

    Secondaries managers that are able to capture, organise and analyse data using AI are likely going to prove the most scalable, say BlackRock’s Lisa Sun and Roque Calleja.

  • Side Letter: Pluralsight's PE/PD implications
    Private Equity News & AnalysisPEI Staff- 27 August 2024

    The high-profile Pluralsight restructuring highlights the changing relationship between private equity sponsor and private credit manager. Plus: the Australian regulator appears to be taking a leaf out of the SEC's book. Here's today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.

  • MSBI commits $900m to PE
    Disha Suresh- 23 August 2024

    Minnesota State Board of Investment committed $300m to Blackrock Long Term Private Capital II, $250m to Summit Partners Growth Equity Fund XII, $150m to Thoma Bravo Fund XVI and $200m commitment to Thomas H Lee Partners Equity Fund X.

  • BlackRock seeks around $5bn for second long-hold fund
    Private Equity News & AnalysisHannah Zhang- 16 August 2024

    The target amount sought for Long Term Private Capital II could change, Private Equity International understands.

  • Side Letter: Brookfield's trillion
    Private Equity News & AnalysisPEI Staff- 8 August 2024

    Brookfield has become the latest alternatives giant to join the trillion-dollar-AUM club. Plus: climate fundraising in 2024 has already overtaken last year's total; and another group of financial institutions has left a climate initiative under pressure from Republican lawmakers. Here's today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.

  • Digital wealth platforms for private markets: Who’s offering what?
    Private Equity News & AnalysisCarmela Mendoza- 24 July 2024

    Everything you need to know about the tech-enabled platforms meeting the needs of advisers, HNWIs and asset managers.

  • Side Letter: Temasek's steady hand
    Private Equity News & AnalysisPEI Staff- 11 July 2024

    The world's largest PE investor says it is guided by thematic investing, and does not have a target allocation for the asset class. Plus: the firm that's doubled each fund size since inception; and BlackRock's thoughts on AI. Here's today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.

  • AlpInvest: LPs are shopping the 'best parts' of their portfolios amid distribution slowdown
    Private Equity Deals & TransactionsKatrina Lau- 11 June 2024

    AlpInvest chair Ruulke Bagijn and global head of primaries Wendy Zhu tell PEI that the Carlyle secondaries unit is seeing higher quality LP-led opportunities come to market.