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Story of the Year: The best of PEI’s Friday LetterPEI’s editorial team tackled the climate crisis, racial inequality, tax avoidance and everything in between this year.
Story of the Year: Did they really say that?Representatives from Blackstone, CalPERS and PSERS were among this year’s most quotable denizens of private equity.
Story of the year: The private equity performance debateThe question of whether the asset class really delivers outperformance or is simply a billionaire factory came to the fore in 2020 with professor Ludovic Phalippou's last word on the subject.
Story of the Year: Private equity works from homePrivate equity embraced remote working this year, though its long-term impact on the industry gives some a cause for concern.
PEI Awards 2020: Let’s celebrate success in extraordinary timesCast your vote and help decide the outcome in 71 categories making up the 2020 Private Equity International Awards.
Side Letter: What a time to have a $10bn secondaries fundWhat Blackstone’s $3.45 billion portfolio acquisition says about life science; how the firm formerly known as Meyer Bergman fared with its first fund; Prologis’s outlook on logistics demand; and more in today's briefing, exclusively for our valued subscribers.
Story of the Year: The double-edged sword of state aidThe onset of the coronavirus presented a vital question to private equity managers – should they accept state support or not?
Story of the Year: PE firms donate $100m-plus to help those hurt by virusFrom Blackstone to Eurazeo to Partners Group, PE firms and their executives stepped up in response to the pandemic, forgoing salaries, setting up employee assistance funds and shifting capital to pandemic response companies.
ILPA’s diversity push will apply timely peer pressureDiversity and inclusion appear to have become less of a priority during the pandemic – this is a step in the wrong direction.
ILPA asks LPs and GPs to lead by example with new diversity initiativeThe initiative has 46 founding signatories, including Blackstone, The Carlyle Group and Teacher Retirement System of Texas.