Private Equity
The private equity industry must decide how its long-established fiduciary duty fits with a crisis like this.
2 min read · 08 October 2020
The pension previously reallocated $60m from two Franklin Park PE funds to two of the firm’s venture funds.
1 min read · 08 October 2020
The US public pension has backed two North American private equity funds.
1 min read · 08 October 2020
The covid-19 crisis has done nothing to derail the transition to a carbon-free economy, being driven by some of the world's largest assets owners, the UN climate envoy has said.
2 min read · 08 October 2020
The pandemic is an opportunity to return to a 'better normal', according to Yoshitaka Todoroki, who oversees PE and infra at the $1.5trn Japanese pension giant.
2 min read · 08 October 2020
PE firms need to explain to nearly a million UK portfolio company employees that the industry's job is to back the 'winners' of the covid-19 crisis, a conference has heard.
2 min read · 08 October 2020
Women make up about one in four of senior investment professionals at Neuberger Berman, which employs 'concrete measures' on recruitment and retention.
2 min read · 07 October 2020
Japanese LPs will continue to favour corporate engagement over exclusionary screening of controversial sectors, according to Satoshi Ikeda, chief sustainable finance officer at the country's financial watchdog.
3 min read · 07 October 2020
Buyout funds recorded an average multiple of 1.36x on invested capital in the first half of the year, reverting to the 10-year historical average and down from the near-record 1.45x in late 2019.
3 min read · 07 October 2020
Virtual work has allowed some LP staff to work more closely together as they conduct virtual due diligence, a panel by sister title Buyouts has heard.
4 min read · 06 October 2020
