Managers

With exit activity remaining sluggish, GPs are looking for alternative ways to deliver proceeds back to LPs in older funds, who are waiting for distributions to be able to make new commitments.

President Donald Trump’s tariff show is leaving the private equity industry with no choice but to factor the administration’s isolationist tendencies into their models.

The firm gathered roughly 10% of the capital for its €4bn eighth fund from non-institutional investors, founder Andrea Bonomi tells PEI.

Plannera was launched last year in part to advise on decisions about allocating capital to private equity and other alternative asset classes, a top priority for its two largest Saskatchewan pension clients.

Open-ended funds are drawing in a growing amount of investor capital for their blend of liquidity and investment exposure.

All-weather in nature, Sixth Street’s opportunities strategy is as comfortable in so-called blue-sky investments as it is in stressed and distressed deals.

HarbourVest and Goldman Sachs are understood to be the lead buyers on the multi-asset continuation fund and a single-asset continuation fund respectively.

The Monetary Authority of Singapore last week launched a consultation process for two fund structures targeting the mass market.

IK X Fund closed on €3.3bn after receiving a fundraising extension from LPs, PEI understands.

Providence Equity Partners, CVC and KKR are among the firms making deals in the sector.