Private Equity
Private equity recorded its best performance last year for the €60bn Swedish insurer ahead of a year when returns will be ‘challenging’ to replicate, its senior portfolio manager tells PEI.
3 min read · 23 February 2022
The mid-market firm plans to back about 20 companies in Northern Europe with its IK X Fund, US pension documents show.
2 min read · 23 February 2022
Russia's military incursion into Ukraine could set back the development of Ukraine's small but growing private equity market. Plus: One of Australia's PE stalwarts has launched an offering for individual investors, and public markets volatility has left a late stage funding gap in venture capital. Here's today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.
5 min read · 23 February 2022
With Fund XI, JMI appears to be tapping into key themes of last year’s vigorous fundraising market. One of them is a faster pace of fundraising.
3 min read · 22 February 2022
The large portfolio was among a slew of such sales to hit the market in the second half of 2021.
2 min read · 22 February 2022
Growth equity, while long a vital part of the private equity universe, has become a popular strategy, especially in connection with the rise of technology investing.
2 min read · 22 February 2022
Not everyone within private equity is enamoured with the idea of opening the asset class to retail investors. Plus: BlackRock has appointed an ex-Morgan Stanley boss to service Asia-based institutions and Hong Kong's CLSA has bold plans for China. Here's today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.
4 min read · 22 February 2022
The Taiwan-based insurance company has backed Permira's eighth fund.
1 min read · 22 February 2022
Private equity is the best-performing asset class for the €67bn Finnish pension fund, which says it is challenging 'old business models'.
2 min read · 21 February 2022
Rising fund sizes are driving some investors into the arms of those who can demonstrate greater restraint. Plus: dispatches from Miami's recent Fund Finance Association Symposium and private equity's favourite gadfly reckons he's found a way to capture its upside without the illiquidity. Here's today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.
4 min read · 21 February 2022
