Managers

The most recent quarterly earnings calls from private equity's listed giants have helped to shine a light on fund performance.

Roughly half of the capital came from new LP relationships, PEI understands.

Pent-up demand among sellers facing liquidity pressures and looking to rebalance overexposure issues is expected to bring more processes to market, though later this year.

The European team led by Hemmers made its inaugural investment in March in LOGEX, a European healthcare analytics provider.

Recent investing by Brookfield has informed its plans for a long-term strategy. The firm is exploring more deals “outside of a fund structure,” David Aiken, head of long-term equities, told Buyouts.

The nation’s largest pension system stays with Meketa as the reshaping of its private equity program takes hold.

The fund's strategy will likely borrow, sources told Buyouts, from Blackstone Private Credit Fund – widely known as BCRED – a business development company formed in 2020 for individual investors.

The consumer-focused manager seeks at least $1.25bn.

Of Blackstone’s dry powder reserves, more than $85bn – or around 44% of the total – is in private equity, the firm said on its Q1 2023 earnings call.

The firm is 'looking into' partial sales and continuation vehicles to generate more value among portfolio companies until the exit market is more robust, CEO Christian Sinding says on EQT's Q1 earnings call.