Private Equity
Implementing robust ESG policies to reduce carbon emissions is a necessary step; but firms should not ignore the need to safeguard their portfolios from more immediate climate change effects that threaten returns.
3 min read · 09 January 2020
A look back at the highlights from Private Equity International’s Friday Letters this year reveals an industry grappling with scandals, its role in the economy and the question of real alignment.
4 min read · 30 December 2019
How digitization, automation and the cloud are transforming the industrial sector – and how that is driving PE M&A activity.
5 min read · 29 December 2019
Predictions are notoriously tricky, so here instead are PEI’s anti-predictions.
3 min read · 19 December 2019
Key takeaways from PEI’s latest emerging markets special, published this month.
3 min read · 12 December 2019
When faced with criticism of its role in markets and society, the private equity industry has always been able to point to net returns as the ultimate vindication. In 2020 that won’t be enough.
2 min read · 05 December 2019
At a recent Congressional hearing meant to excoriate private equity, numerous members of Congress voiced support for the industry and touted the jobs such investment brought to their districts.
2 min read · 02 December 2019
Investors should pay attention to how GPs capitalize their own investment in a fund because it raises questions about their real ‘skin in the game’.
3 min read · 28 November 2019
From cybersecurity to regulatory and tech needs, firms are turning to fund admin to tackle a growing list of LP demands.
6 min read · 27 November 2019
Bipartisan words of support for private equity suggest proposed legislation that could devastate the industry would be unlikely to survive Congress – possibly even the House. That doesn’t mean the fight won’t get louder and uglier.
2 min read · 21 November 2019
