Private Equity
With high prices and fierce competition for assets, PwC Germany partner Dr Oliver Schulte Ladbeck, head of business development for PwC Europe Deals, considers whether GPs can sustain the current level of returns
8 min read · 01 May 2019
What changes can we expect in private equity over the next decade? We asked a panel of our 40 Under 40 Future Leaders of Private Equity for their views.
8 min read · 01 May 2019
Fund structuring is becoming ever more complex, driven by more stringent LP requirements, tighter regulation and increasingly global investment strategies, says Dirk Holz, director at RBC Investor and Treasury Services.
6 min read · 30 April 2019
Amundi Group’s asset management arm plans to raise more capital from LPs and make strategic acquisitions in boutique firms.
2 min read · 30 April 2019
Hiromichi Mizuno was tasked with guiding the world's largest pension fund into alternatives. He tells PEI what he learned in his four-year tenure.
9 min read · 30 April 2019
Eric Glass, who oversaw the $40.4bn US pension’s private markets portfolio, has left to start a real estate investment firm, PEI has learned.
2 min read · 25 April 2019
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is set to invest its largest amount in public and private markets this year, according to its director of equity funds.
3 min read · 25 April 2019
The $153bn pension wants to increase the programme to 35% and double its investment team.
5 min read · 24 April 2019
Precedent suggests the industry won’t distance itself from the country’s $60bn sovereign wealth fund as a result of its laws regarding homosexuality.
3 min read · 18 April 2019
Co-investing by the US's largest public pension has stalled due to challenges around speed of execution.
3 min read · 16 April 2019