Private Equity
It has already been an active year for buyout-backed IPOs. January saw Norwegian Cruise Lines, Bright Horizons, TRI Pointe Homes and USA Compression Partners go public. And with several slated to go public in the coming weeks, it seems that private equity firms are generating a lot of exits these days. Or are they?
3 min read · 25 February 2013
1 min read · 25 February 2013
Buyouts and mezzanine firms in the U.S. have collectively secured about $12.2 billion in commitments so far in 2013.
1 min read · 25 February 2013
Each of the seven U.S. buyout shops listed below is experiencing success in the stock market.
1 min read · 22 February 2013
U.S. buyout firms have taken a modest lead in performance over global buyout firms in the 3-year and 5-year time periods, according to the latest performance figures from Thomson Reuters, publisher of Buyouts.
1 min read · 15 February 2013
The U.S. PE Index, which measures activity in the U.S. private-equity market, climbed 23 percent in the fourth quarter to 123.9, according to the Private Equity Growth Capital Council.
1 min read · 14 February 2013
Randal W. Ralph, a managing director at Milwaukee-based Northwestern Mutual Capital, talks in this video about how the $31 billion firm makes its allocations in equities. Although more than three quarters of its assets are investment grade fixed income, the firm does allocate nearly 10 percent of its portfolio to limited partnerships.
1 min read · 13 February 2013
Online retailers have been darlings of the venture world for nearly two decades. Now private equity investors are selectively starting to go shopping there.
5 min read · 11 February 2013
The past two weeks reflect a number of fundraising moves by U.S.-based buyout and mezzanine firms that pushed total capital committed in 2013 to about $8.6 billion.
1 min read · 11 February 2013
Of more than a thousand managers active in China to chose from, one experienced LP estimates there are fewer than a dozen genuinely worthy of a commitment. GPs looking for funding will need to do more to point to China’s growth story.
3 min read · 08 February 2013
