Deep Dive

Whitehorse Liquidity Partners is a rising star of the preferred equity market, led by one of the industry’s most charismatic figures. What’s behind its success? A strategy treated as ‘genius’ by some and with wariness by others.

Private equity is failing to find its voice or properly engage with its detractors and the barrage of criticism won’t stop until it does.

John Vaske is establishing the Singapore government-owned investor as a key player in the North American market.

David Enriquez, head of private equity at the $208bn New York City Retirement Systems, talks co-investments, GP-LP best practices and the ‘white space’ it wants to fill in its portfolio.

In the final part of our series on private equity metrics, PEI examines why the internal rate of return can flatter to deceive.

In the third part of our four-part series on private equity metrics, PEI looks at the dangers of unregulated reporting and why the total-value-to-paid-in multiple only tells half the story.

In the second part of our four-part series on private equity metrics, PEI examines how benchmarks are gamed from two different, relatively simple angles.

Private equity relies on metrics to make some of its most crucial decisions, but do they tell the whole story? In the first of four articles, we take a closer look at the "shapeshifting" EBITDA.

Behind the colossally popular fund of firms business Dyal is a suite of products the investments giant uses to fill the holes traditional markets can’t address.

For three decades, Investcorp has built a reputation connecting investors in the Gulf with opportunities in the developed world. Now, as it shoots for $50bn in AUM, it is carrying out its grandest plans yet.