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  • Side Letter: KKR's $13bn monetisation haul
    Private Equity News & AnalysisPEI Staff- 28 October 2024

    KKR has seen a 60 percent uptick in monetisation activity this year as exit conditions improve. Plus: Why secondaries evergreen funds are changing buyer behaviour. Here's today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.

  • KKR sees more 'wood to chop' after nearly trebling wealth platform
    Private Equity News & AnalysisHannah Zhang- 25 October 2024

    The firm saw 'real strength' in its private equity and infrastructure wealth products over the past year, head of investor relations Craig Larson said on its Q3 earnings call.

  • Side Letter: How to make ESOPs work
    Private Equity News & AnalysisPEI Staff- 22 October 2024

    A managing partner at the Riverside Company explains how best to implement employee stock ownership plans. Plus: Hong Kong wants firms to consider listing in the special administrative region; and Ping An has completed another secondaries process to free up liquidity. Here's today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.

  • Side Letter: Rightsizing co-investment risk
    Private Equity News & AnalysisPEI Staff- 16 October 2024

    How LPs can evaluate whether their GPs are maximising the potential of their fund exposure versus co-investments. Plus: Private equity defaults are on the rise, says Moody's; and Apollo is the latest to enter the evergreen secondaries party. Here's today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.

  • What happens when ESOPs meet continuation funds?
    CommentaryHannah Zhang- 10 October 2024

    The treatment of co-investments in continuation vehicles could provide guidance on how things may play out when PE-backed portfolio companies with a broad-based employee stock ownership plan are rolled into a CV.

  • Side Letter: Thoma Bravo's $25bn exit bonanza
    Private Equity News & AnalysisPEI Staff- 7 October 2024

    Thoma Bravo appears to have defied exit headwinds with a major spate of realisations. Plus: Why private equity's co-investment 'genie' could create a new norm in fundraising. Here's today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.

  • Creating an ownership culture
    Manager StrategyAmy Carroll- 3 October 2024

    Some of the world’s biggest private equity firms are taking employee engagement and talent management to the next level with broad-based equity ownership programmes.

  • Side Letter: Bright lights for PE's diversity progress
    Private Equity News & AnalysisPEI Staff- 26 September 2024

    European private equity firms have seen a jump in female investment professional ratios. Plus: Alaska's seesawing PE allocation; and KKR's take on alts growth. Here's today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.

  • Japan’s Longreach taps 'aggressive' domestic LP appetites to reach final close
    FundsAlex Lynn- 18 September 2024

    Japanese institutions contributed 54% of the newly closed Fund IV – the largest proportion of any Longreach fund to date, partner Mark Chiba tells PEI.

  • 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.