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CDPQ invests record $7.9bn in 2019, as PE strategy continues shift to directsFollowing a significant re-weighting of CDPQ's private equity portfolio, direct investing represents more than three-quarters of all activity.
How to do diversity, according to ILPAThe Institutional Limited Partners Association’s private equity diversity and inclusion roadmap is an open-source and online resource for LPs, GPs and industry practitioners.
Side Letter: More on Alaska's alts team, Tikehau's new partners, Bain and McKinsey reportsMore details on the restless alternatives team at Alaska's sovereign wealth fund. Plus: notes from Bain's and McKinsey's annual reports and nuggets on Tikehau, AP4 and Blackstone. Here’s today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.
Side Letter: Future 40, Blackstone's Brexit bargains, Invest Europe's top 3No Bre-grets: Blackstone's Jon Gray is excited about the multiples that UK assets are going for as it extricates itself from the EU, while European PE's chief ambassador wants to keep capital flowing around the continent and into private funds. Here’s today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.
The largest LPs in Blackstone’s buyout fundsWhich investors have made the biggest commitments to Blackstone’s flagship private equity funds?
Blackstone’s Gray: UK is the most compelling developed marketBrexit-related uncertainty has made valuations for UK mid-market companies more attractive, president and COO Jonathan Gray told Private Equity International.
Side Letter: EQT's self-improvement, Legend's new deal, shopping in the UKA major private markets player has put some measurable diversity targets in place. Plus: inside Legend Capital's restructuring, buying opportunities in the UK and more. Here’s today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.
Rollover co-investments: ‘Handle with extreme care’Permira, Nordic Capital and EQT are all examples of GPs who have acquired minority stakes in assets they've just exited in so-called 'rollover co-investment' deals.
Side Letter: Hamilton Lane and Investcorp results, online fundraising platforms, infra secondariesHamilton Lane's Mario Giannini sees no impact on fundraising coming from trade wars, health emergencies or the like. Plus: operating partner horror stories, Investcorp's exit slowdown and PE industry disruption. Here’s today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.
The one thing that keeps Blackstone up at nightOn an earnings call last week, president and COO Jonathan Gray revealed the what worries the world's largest private equity firm the most.