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Friday Letter: And the winners are ...Private equity is a truly international business, and is shaping companies and economies around the world.
- Friday Letter: A message from Monaco
Many private equity people are in a rather festive mood these days. And so it was at EVCA’s Annual Symposium in Monaco this week, where more than 600 delegates took the opportunity to celebrate the European industry’s most successful year on record. Such was the crowd’s buoyancy at the conference that a novice to private equity might have been wondering whether this kind of investment activity is somehow immune to the kind of market cyclicality that so obviously affects all other asset classes.
- Friday Letter: Joined-up thinking
It has been yet another breathtaking week for the private equity industry. The globe’s buyout behemoths played their part in “Merger Monday”, when in a frantic 24-hour period firms announced $75 billion worth of deals.
- Friday Letter: Not our job
Jeremy Coller, founder of secondaries behemoth Coller Capital, and Javier Loizaga, EVCA chairman and executive partner of Spanish firm Mercapital, joined forces this week to urge investors to face the industry’s critics in the increasingly fierce debate about the asset class.
- Friday Letter Brakes squealing
Investors are increasingly concerned. Managers may have curtailed any investment excesses as credit markets have closed, but are they in denial still as capital market pain turns to economic reality?
- Friday Letter Speak Up
India and China are two of the hot destinations for private equity investment globally, but what if you are another emerging market without the headline grabbing macro-economic numbers? How do you get people to understand your story? Pakistan’s nascent private equity industry has an answer.
- Friday Letter: Global letters
Last night we held our second annual Private Equity International Awards Global Winners' Celebration - and revealed the Private Equity Leader for this year.
- Friday Letter Tsunami warning
Is it just us, or does anyone else sense that the long-delayed secondaries deal wave is finally on its way?
- Friday Letter PEI Award winners find success in uncertain times
During December, thousands of private equity industry participants in more than 50 countries took the time to think about which firms, advisors and transactions truly stood out from the rest in 2010. They voted in our annual PEI Awards readers’ poll, the results of which were revealed this week and show the brightest firms in the industry have flourished despite challenging conditions.
- Friday Letter Another banner year for secondries
The first six months of 2011 were record-breaking for the secondaries market, which is poised to hit an all-time high this year.