Managers

The firm, which closed its acquisition of UK supermarket chain Asda last year, expects to wrap up fundraising by the end of the third quarter.

Investors are generally sticking with their established relationships and avoiding forming new ones in the uncertain environment.

IR and business development professionals field impromptu calls with LPs and search for allocation possibilities while also assisting with deal flow.

A total of 417 buyout, growth equity, venture capital and other PE vehicles in North America secured nearly $255bn in H1 2022, according to Buyouts’ data, down 18% from a year earlier.

Vistria was set up to earn superior performance while applying a social lens to investing because “running a business the right way leads to higher returns,” Kirkpatrick said.

'We are currently seeing strong support from both existing and new institutional investors, especially from outside the United States,' co-president Jim Zelter said in the Q2 earnings call.

'Thinking of pension systems only in terms of the stock price return may have worked in 1945. But in 2025, it might not be that simple.'

New fund structures and solvency requirements could lay the groundwork for a wave of emerging managers in the UK, write Adam Palmer and Andrew Poole of governance consultancy ACA Group.

Separately, the FCA has warned that London-listed companies may face enforcement action for inadequate TCFD-aligned climate disclosures.

If it reaches its $2.1bn cap, Fund VI will easily be EagleTree’s largest vehicle to date, almost twice the size of its predecessor, closed two years ago.