Endowments

Blackstone's deployment drive looks set to continue as interest rates fall. Plus: Harvard's university endowment is still seeing private equity underperform public markets; and a politician calls for the asset class to aid rebuilding efforts after a series of devastating hurricanes. Here's today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.

Customization, speed of deployment and market-beating returns have attracted the world’s most sophisticated and largest LPs to co-investing, says Fiduciary Co-Investment Partners’ Claudio Siniscalco.

The $445 billion QIA is massively expanding its Asia-Pacific footprint to capture private equity opportunities in the region. Plus: why some experts believe concerns over NAV loans have been blown out of proportion. Here's today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.

With SEC rules scuttled, the Institutional Limited Partners Association is seeking 'something that the industry can work together on collaboratively', according to its managing director of industry affairs.

Look into the data behind our latest ranking of the biggest investors in private equity in this 10-page presentation.

LPs at PDI’s Tokyo Forum last week outlined their expectations around transparency, tax structuring, reporting and GP ownership.

From Korean VC to Southeast Asia growth funds, Trinity Church Wall Street is seeking managers on an upwards trajectory as it pushes deeper into PE, according to its managing director for investments.

In this episode of the Spotlight podcast, Jill Shaw, a managing director at global consultancy Cambridge Associates, discusses the hottest private markets strategies for these investors and their ideal approaches to portfolio construction.

The average PE exposure across all investor types surpassed 10% last year, up more than 4 percentage points compared with five years ago, according to PEI’s full-year 2023 Investor Report.

Foundations and endowments had the highest increase in relative exposure to the asset class, according to PEI’s half-year 2023 Investor Report.