Investors

Ahmed Badreldin, former head of MENA for The Abraaj Group, writes for PEI about his thoughts for LPs on fund due diligence lessons and investor safeguards.

In a heady fundraising environment, GPs are pushing fund terms in their favour, and it’s up to LPs to walk them back, Texas Municipal Retirement System’s director of private equity Christopher Schelling.

The Canadian pension has teamed with Generation Investment Management and will target companies with strong ESG attributes.

National Pension Service had been without a CIO for more than a year amid a stream of resignations in its senior executive team.

The retailer’s severance fund may, however, change future discussions at the negotiating table.

Recent fund launches have seen general partners tinker with the distribution waterfall, writes Proskauer’s Andy Shore.

Hellman & Friedman and Blackstone’s Strategic Partners began transfers of power this year. Other firms should take note of some key elements.

The sovereign wealth fund’s $7.2bn private equity and special opportunities portfolio returned 32.7% for the year ending 30 June.

New managers are up, secondaries are down and co-investments remain popular in the latest version of the Rede Liquidity Index.