Private Equity
Recent experience suggests new managers with senior GPs and strategies spun out of brand-name firms could have a fundraising edge, even in a pandemic-battered market.
5 min read · 23 June 2020
The US public pension has backed five private equity funds.
1 min read · 23 June 2020
The Abraaj saga continues and the next chapter is either exciting or terrifying depending who you are. Plus: another advisor for Asante, a new podcast for you and plenty more. Here's today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.
3 min read · 23 June 2020
RMBV, which became independent from Abraaj Group last year, will begin conversations with potential LPs in September, PEI has learned.
2 min read · 23 June 2020
Our senior editors discuss the findings of our latest surveys looking at how private equity investors and their managers are doing business during the covid-19 crisis.
1 min read · 23 June 2020
After a few weeks of adjusting, many firms did a quick “pivot to productivity,” looking for new ways to operate in the virtual world and making big investments in digital.
3 min read · 22 June 2020
The sale was one of the largest LP stake sales last year, though eclipsed by Norinchukin Bank’s $5bn PE portfolio sale.
2 min read · 22 June 2020
Ludovic Phalippou has ploughed a pretty lonely furrow in the world of PE-related academia. Do you love him or loathe him? Here's today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.
4 min read · 22 June 2020
A division of Wells Fargo has agreed to sell its Global Alternative Investments feeder fund platform to iCapital Network. The bank is also making a 'strategic investment' into iCapital.
2 min read · 22 June 2020
Major OZ fund managers like Cresset and Bridge Investment Group are still moving forward despite the market disruption from the coronavirus crisis.
4 min read · 19 June 2020