Private Equity
It’s the right trend for the times – manager contributions to their private equity funds are growing larger, notes Philip Borel.
3 min read · 05 January 2013
Kirk Dizon, co-head of private equity at Hall Capital Partners, talks about the tough decisions facing an advisor with roughly 1500 funds to choose from.
4 min read · 05 January 2013
Increasingly, ‘just another fund of funds’ may become an endangered species, as fundraising statistics forewarn, writes David Snow.
4 min read · 05 January 2013
GPs that rose with the credit bubble and fell when it burst, and that are coming to market this year to raise funds, are unlikely to gain the kind of support necessary to hit their targets, writes Christopher Witkowsky.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The middle class in Brazil continues to grow, boosting the opportunities for private equity in the consumer and retail sector in the country, writes Seth Zalkin.
3 min read · 05 January 2013
Private equity firms have a role to play in infrastructure. They might just have to tweak some of the ways they do business, argues Cezary Podkul.
3 min read · 05 January 2013
Britain’s new budget is kind to venture capitalists but buyout investors are not being wooed by government in the same way. They should be, writes Nicholas Donato.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The EU’s proposed ‘financial transaction’ and ‘financial activities’ taxes were intended for the banking sector, but private equity deals and remuneration could fall under their scope, writes Amanda Janis.
3 min read · 05 January 2013
Committing to a fund because your peers already have is not a good investment rationale, writes Christopher Witkowsky.
3 min read · 05 January 2013
The traditional route for liquidity in the venture world is the IPO, but the past two years have seen the emergence of the venture secondary market, write Sam Schwerin and Dan Burstein (pictured).
3 min read · 05 January 2013
