Deep Dive

PE firms are eyeing the US’s $12trn defined contribution market as their next battleground. Navigating the structural and legal hurdles won’t be an easy task.

The Institutional Limited Partners Association’s new Europe head, Bart van Dijk, speaks five languages and enjoys interacting with people – attributes that will come in handy given the representative body’s growth plans for the region.

Investors can use an array of tools to mitigate the impact of geopolitical risk, including manager selection, exposure limits and even fund documentation.

The UK’s decision to bring carried interest into the income tax bracket may have unintended consequences for the global private equity industry.

Southeast Asia, once touted as the continent’s next big thing in private equity, is struggling to live up to expectations. What’s holding the region back?

Continuation funds, NAV loans, dividend recaps and other tools have muddied the waters when it comes to investors ascertaining how distributed to paid-in ratios are generated.

Investors including Alaska Permanent, Caisse des Dépôts, Skandia, New York City Retirement Systems and TRS Texas share their views on how this market can be improved and how they are positioning themselves to take advantage of CVs.

Martin Longchamps, head of private equity at the $319bn Canadian giant, talks to PEI about secondaries sales, overallocation and what steps the institution plans to take next.