Buyout

Software funds from the likes of Vista, Insight and PSG are largely outperforming or matching their vintage cohorts, despite concerns over returns in this sector.

Weinberg tells us about his fantasy job as a teacher, his love for Hawaii, great sunset dinners and 1980s music, and why golf is a ‘go-to’ when he needs to relax.

The mid-market buyout firm closed on its $2.37 billion raise – slightly short of its target – after a more-than two-year marketing effort.

Nearly half of the private equity funds that closed in the first quarter met their fundraising targets – the highest proportion in at least five years.

Founder and managing partner Rob Wolfson set up Aphias last year to make control investments in lower mid-market companies in healthcare services and essential services sectors.

From a bird’s eye view, US emerging managers seem to be enjoying an early spring. But if the market for new players is coming up roses, LPs don’t seem to smell it, results of Buyouts’ Emerging Managers Survey 2026 suggest.

KKR North America Fund XIV will build on the firm's history of implementing employee ownership programmes in its portfolio companies.