Private Equity
The time will soon come when a pre-coronavirus track record won’t count for much; LPs will be judging managers on how they rise to the challenges in the coming quarters.
3 min read · 28 May 2020
Private equity sponsors may find themselves in need of capital due to the covid-19 crisis. Enter: the secondaries market.
3 min read · 21 May 2020
Investors are expecting their GPs to do everything they can to save portfolio companies and keep employees on the payroll – and that includes accepting eligible government support.
3 min read · 14 May 2020
Investors who rushed to join the country’s digital revolution are facing issues pre-dating the pandemic that could spell the end of private equity’s golden age.
3 min read · 07 May 2020
Excluding private equity-backed companies from government assistance programmes only harms those pensions and employees society is striving to protect.
3 min read · 23 April 2020
Our annual Japan Special showcases the tenacious local managers that have persisted through a tough market. It is this grit and determination that gives them confidence to face the next downturn.
2 min read · 16 April 2020
We caused a stir with reports of unnamed LP defaults this week; was it a storm in a teacup?
3 min read · 02 April 2020
A statement from pensions with combined assets of nearly $2trn is a clear warning to sceptics.
2 min read · 05 March 2020
Private capital is starting to feel the force of the climate crisis tipping point.
3 min read · 20 February 2020
The coronavirus epidemic could not have come at a worse time for domestic PE firms, some of which have already been struggling on the fundraising trail.
2 min read · 06 February 2020
