Western Europe

’We’ve discovered through our research if you have decision-makers that are diverse, then the capital will go to more diverse founders,’ says Christine Hockley of British Business Bank.

The local government pension scheme pool, with over £50bn of committed client fund capital, is expanding its investment capabilities ahead of seven more funds joining its pool.

A GP needs specialist knowledge to find the best opportunities in the defence sector, says Claus Jørgensen, chief investment officer at Denmark's PenSam.

The firm has teamed up with GPs including Ardian and the Riverside Company to support cross-European private wealth distribution.

A look at distributed to paid-in ratios across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and multi-region strategies.

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.

A $2 billion insurance tie up involving KKR could prove the tip of the iceberg for private markets firms hoping to access this lucrative channel. Plus: impact capital is becoming consolidated; and PJT Park Hill reckons secondaries activity could hit $230 billion this year. Here's today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.

In this episode of PEI's Private Equity Spotlight podcast, Goodwin partner and co-chair of its UK business Ajay Pathak discusses the applicability of drawdown fund fee structures on evergreen vehicles and the logic behind tying incentive fees to both realised and unrealised NAV.