Private Equity
The exit scene has been gaining momentum over the second quarter, building on the laid-back market witnessed in Q1.
4 min read · 15 July 2013
U.S.-based buyout and mezzanine firms raised approximately $79.1 billion in capital commitments from institutional investors year-to-date. Overall fundraising remains a tad depressed compared with this time last year when buyout funds managed to collect $85 billion in commitments.
1 min read · 15 July 2013
Private equity firms invested $347 billion in more than 2,000 portfolio companies in the United States last year, according to the the Private Equity Growth Capital Council’s annual “Private Equity: Top States and Districts” report.
1 min read · 12 July 2013
U.S. buyout shops raised $2.2 billion in investor commitments over the second half of June, resulting in $41.9 billion being raised for both buyout and mezzanine funds since the start of the year. Overall fundraising is way down from last year, when firms managed to raise $85 billion by the end of the second quarter.
1 min read · 01 July 2013
Following strong economic growth in the 1980s, Japan hit a snag.
4 min read · 17 June 2013
In this keynote video from the PartnerConnect East 2013 conference in Boston, Mark Yusko, CEO and CIO of Morgan Creek Capital Management, the multi-strategy Chapel Hill, North Carolina-based advisory shop, talks about economic and financial trends in a talk he described as “surviving in the age of financial repression.”
1 min read · 14 June 2013
Charlie Krusen, the founder of Krusen Capital Management, a New York- based adviser on alternatives, talks in this video about his firm’s strategy for working with clients, typically family offices or advisory firms for individual investors, on ways of integrating alternative investments such as private equity with the clients’ other assets to mitigate volatility.
1 min read · 06 June 2013
Peter Lacaillade, the director of private equity at SCS Financial, talks in this video about the evolution of the Boston-based multi-family office and its approach to the alternatives sector, including buyouts, growth equity, venture capital and energy investing. SCS Financial has some $11 billion under management.
1 min read · 30 May 2013
Sanjay Gupta, the executive director of Swiss fund of funds manager Adveq Management, talks in this video about the firm’s strategy to target top decile returns by focusing on small or mid-size funds that have heavily operational strategies.
1 min read · 22 May 2013
Private equity-backed jewelry and accessories retailer Claire’s Inc. has filed with regulators to raise up to $100 million in an initial public offering of its common stock, according to sister news service Reuters.
1 min read · 20 May 2013
