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Story of the Year: The best of PEI’s Friday Letter

PEI’s editorial team tackled the climate crisis, racial inequality, tax avoidance and everything in between this year.

2 min read · 30 December 2020

Hellman & Friedman moves Verisure out of 2009 pool in cross-fund secondary

Hellman & Friedman’s process, along with others like Clearlake Capital’s single-asset secondary deal to move Ivanti out of an older fund, is a sign that the most high-profile GPs are comfortable using the secondary market to preserve ownership of older assets.

3 min read · 29 December 2020

Story of the Year: Did they really say that?

Representatives from Blackstone, CalPERS and PSERS were among this year’s most quotable denizens of private equity.

3 min read · 29 December 2020

Story of the Year: PEI’s most-downloaded podcasts of 2020

PEI Media’s Spotlight podcast was downloaded more than 56,000 times this year, with discussions ranging from the pandemic to diversity to when and how to build an in-house IR team.

2 min read · 28 December 2020

You're on Mute

A festive verse from Eamon Devlin, a Zurich-based partner at asset management consultancy MJ Hudson.

2 min read · 25 December 2020

Happy Holidays from PEI!

Private Equity International will be back on 4 January.

1 min read · 24 December 2020

Oak Hill eyes final close on $3.6bn for Fund V

The close would be over the fund’s $3bn target. Oak Hill started raising Fund V last year.

1 min read · 23 December 2020

U.S.-based managers increase offerings of 'European waterfall': study

The study from MJ Hudson is based on funds in the asset management consultancy's database.

2 min read · 23 December 2020

Story of the year: The private equity performance debate

The question of whether the asset class really delivers outperformance or is simply a billionaire factory came to the fore in 2020 with professor Ludovic Phalippou's last word on the subject.

3 min read · 23 December 2020

Story of the year: Vista's Robert Smith and the $139m 'nothing burger'

The tech-focused investor's chairman and chief executive admitted to tax evasion on almost $200m of assets in October.

3 min read · 23 December 2020

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