Private Equity

Central & Eastern Europe

How investors are adapting ESG policies on defence

Pension funds and insurers – as well as GPs – are revising documentation to permit investment into assets that are off limits for many.

4 min read · 22 September 2025

Carlyle AlpInvest: Europe's military industrial build-out to spawn 'interesting opportunities'

No SMA clients have yet sought to alter their exclusion lists in response to Europe’s defence opportunity, global head Ruulke Bagijn and global head of primaries Wendy Zhu tell PEI.

4 min read · 31 July 2025

Europe’s GP-led market is on a tear

An explosion of hefty – and, in some cases, repeat – continuation fund processes underscores the increasing maturation of Europe’s secondaries landscape.

3 min read · 24 July 2025

European managers amass more capital on the PEI 300

Aggregate capital raised by Europe-based firms reached $698bn, up $40bn from last year’s ranking.

3 min read · 02 June 2025

GPs weigh in on safety-net scenarios and discipline in challenging exit environment

Managers are focusing on optimising their exit readiness and getting the equity story right as tariffs add more complexity to sales processes, according to panellists at PEI’s Operating Partners Forum Europe.

3 min read · 23 May 2025

Euro vision: ILPA’s plans for Europe

The Institutional Limited Partners Association’s new Europe head, Bart van Dijk, speaks five languages and enjoys interacting with people – attributes that will come in handy given the representative body’s growth plans for the region.

8 min read · 01 May 2025

Deloitte: Retail appetite for private capital may surge

A Deloitte report forecasts that retail investors’ allocations to private capital could expand to $2.4trn by 2030 in the US.

2 min read · 30 April 2025

Number Crunch: Agri feels aggrieved

The agribusiness sector is yet to recover from fading interest in the wake of the covid-19 pandemic.

5 min read · 29 April 2025

PEI Awards 2024: EMEA winners

Kirkland & Ellis collects two awards, while Aware Super wins Limited Partner of the Year in EMEA.

3 min read · 03 March 2025

Choppy waters: How LPs can navigate geopolitical risk

Investors can use an array of tools to mitigate the impact of geopolitical risk, including manager selection, exposure limits and even fund documentation.

10 min read · 03 March 2025

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