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GPs make progress on gender imbalance in private equity portfolios

Cultural change, patience and ambition are needed for private equity firms to move ahead in tracking portfolio-level gender diversity.

8 min read · 03 July 2023

Roundtable: There is method to the Mittelstand

Even amid a wider dealflow drought, Germany’s mid-market is thriving. This comes as a result of relatively low PE penetration, fragmented industries and a new generation of ambitious managers.

10 min read · 03 July 2023

CVC secures €25bn for industry's biggest-ever buyout fund

CVC Capital Partners IX, which is yet to hold its final close, is already larger than Blackstone's $26.2bn record haul in 2019.

2 min read · 26 June 2023

DPI overthrows IRR as the king of KPIs

Carlyle Group's over €1bn NAV loan for its fifth Europe vehicle is a sign of things to come.

3 min read · 22 June 2023

Impact, sustainability and secondaries are high on LP wish-lists, says Rede survey

Healthcare is still the most cited area of increasing LP activity, according the placement agent and advisory firm's six-monthly LP survey.

2 min read · 22 June 2023

Synova sells stake to Bonaccord in pan-European push

Bonaccord’s latest investment follows a recent strategic partnership with Singapore-based asset management firm Asia Heritage.

2 min read · 20 June 2023

Carlyle secured NAV loan worth more than €1bn on fifth Europe fund

The alternatives giant took out the facility against about 20 portfolio assets in its 2018-vintage Carlyle Europe Partners V fund, Private Equity International has learned.

3 min read · 16 June 2023

Is the era of an AI-driven secondaries market upon us?

Generative artificial intelligence and machine learning could be used in a ground-breaking way in the secondaries market, though there are a few hurdles to overcome first.

3 min read · 15 June 2023

Low DPI trumps recession among LP concerns – Capstone report

The denominator effect has dropped in importance as investors worry about liquidity, according to a survey from the placement firm on distributions and investor allocations.

3 min read · 15 June 2023

Jeremy Hand: PE will continue to outperform other forms of ownership

The former chair of Horizon Capital and Lyceum Capital managing partner shares his thoughts with Private Equity International on more than three decades in the industry.

6 min read · 14 June 2023

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