Financial services

For Silvia Oteri, who heads Permira's global healthcare investing arm, improving the gender gap isn't just about getting more women into PE, she believes, but creating an environment that leads to success.

In today's edition, Private funds managers are facing rising risks from sanctions; PE's distribution drought is altering allocation behaviour; Why wealth managers and PE owners could prove a perfect marriage.

Co-founder says the culture the firm has created 'strongly resonates with investors.'

Gene Yoon tells Buyouts that the firm assesses deployment rates and aims to avoid risk-return dilution when setting its fund size targets – though Fund V represents a 32% increase over its predecessor.

“We have sent significant capital back to our investors over the last two to three years, and as you can imagine, it was very well-received given the liquidity-starved environment many LPs have highlighted,” said Neil White, the firm’s president and managing partner.

Of the $60bn of third quarter deal volume, GP-leds represented about 52%, according to PJT Partners’ Q3 2025 Secondary Market Insight report.

Panellists at a wealth conference in London cited inadequacies around data sharing, particularly during the due diligence phase.

Thanks to the evolution of a robust private market ecosystem that includes private credit, secondaries and unprecedented amounts of capital, companies are growing bigger and staying private for longer than ever before. Nevertheless, the dream to go public is still very much alive.

ASIC says it needs ‘greater visibility’ to support market integrity and help maintain confidence, and will carry out ‘targeted surveillance’ in the next 18 months.

After an era of exuberance, expansion and ‘rockstar’ roles, sustainability in private markets is being more closely tethered to value creation.