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Friday Letter Talking TurkeyPrivate equity in Turkey has been on the up for a few years now, without ever quite taking off. But stars seem to be aligning in its favour.
- Friday Letter Texas Consolidates
The Texas Teachers’ Retirement System has committed $6bn to KKR and Apollo to invest across strategies – specialist managers are missing out.
- Friday Letter @PrivateEquityLP: made 4x on exit! #homerun #champagne
For an industry that prides itself on being both progressive and adaptable, private equity has been slow to embrace social media in a bid to create and manage brand awareness.
- Friday Letter Stepping down and stepping back
Succession has long been a tricky issue to deal with for private equity firms, but several groups have demonstrated in recent weeks that it need not be a painful process.
- Friday Letter LP's want a special relationship
Separate accounts are all the rage, for good reasons
- Friday Letter Only partly responsible
GPs are struggling to live up to LPs' demands for ESG excellence. Some need to raise their game, quickly.
- Friday Letter Time to be bold
Two swallows do not a summer make, but the $6.6bn acquisition of Suddenlink this week, and the rumoured buyout of RBS-owned insurer Direct Line for a similar amount, suggest big buyouts could be coming back into fashion. Given the amount of dry powder that needs to be spent, it’s about time.
- Friday Letter Careful what you wish for
LPs love the US mid-market at the moment – but there are genuine concerns that the amount of capital flooding into this segment could depress returns.
- Five Minutes with Ming Lu
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts recently opened a Singapore office, its seventh in Asia. The firm’s regional leader of Southeast Asia provides his views on a region where very few global firms have made investments.
- Five Minutes with Vincent Ng
Fundraising is down nearly 50 percent in most of Asia in 2012, according to the data division of PEI, and yet big funds are being raised for the region. Vincent Ng, a partner at Atlantic-Pacific Capital, discusses the fundraising climate.