CF Private Equity

In this episode of PEI's Private Equity Spotlight podcast, Tim Yates, Commonfund OCIO's president and CEO, discusses the three core principles private markets investors should consider before pausing capital deployments to PE.

A proposed increase of the size and scope of the existing US endowment tax will likely force many endowments to increase their commitments to private equity.

While continuation funds are increasingly common liquidity solutions, not all of them are delivering the appropriate returns, according to Cari Lodge, head of secondaries at Commonfund.

The current debate about whether the inflation spike we are seeing is ‘transitory’ should be reframed as ‘reflation vs sustained inflation’, according to Commonfund’s Ryan Driscoll.

These firms have become more diversified and their sticky revenue stream is tied more to management fees, according to director and head of private equity Mark Hoeing.