Private Equity

Limited Partners

CPP: the world’s top LP gets bigger and better

CPP Investments dominates the GI 100 once again, with its PE exposure double the average of the 10 next-largest investors.

5 min read · 01 July 2022

Recent initiatives place MetLife in the GI 100 vanguard

The $639bn insurer has made headway in recent years across co-investments, emerging managers and the secondaries market.

3 min read · 01 July 2022

Investors push for gender diversity

LPs are using manager selection processes to press for greater gender parity in the private markets industry and beyond.

5 min read · 01 July 2022

Bpifrance turns innovation into growth

The sovereign investor, which ranked 13th in this year’s list, is well known for encouraging its GPs to innovate sustainably and expand into new areas of investment.

4 min read · 01 July 2022

PE’s halcyon days might be over – at least for now

This year’s GI 100 ranking captures an asset class that may temporarily have reached its zenith.

3 min read · 30 June 2022

A failed deal or rocky vintage isn't a write off for Natixis' Flexstone

The funds, secondaries and co-investment unit of the $1.4trn asset manager wants to see evidence of private equity professionals going into companies to 'do the work', managing partner Nitin Gupta tells PEI.

3 min read · 27 June 2022

How CPP is thinking about new GP relationships in Asia

PEI catches up with Frank Su, head of PE Asia at CPP Investments, to discuss the Canadian giant's conditions for backing an emerging manager.

3 min read · 27 June 2022

What are LPs reading this summer?

Investors from across the PE sector tell PEI which books will be in their suitcases for the holidays, ranging from deep dives into the venture capital industry to memoirs from a Muslim drag queen.

5 min read · 24 June 2022

LPs beware, because ‘everybody has a great track record’, says LGT’s Vercoutère

With so much recent track record unrealised, investors must focus on cash-on-cash, says Ivan Vercoutère, co-founder of LGT Capital Partners.

2 min read · 23 June 2022

David Rubenstein’s 10 steps to due diligencing funds

The Carlyle co-founder invests in ‘a lot of funds’ these days; here is a lightning guide to his due diligence process.

2 min read · 21 June 2022

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