Buyout

Youngshin Park, a 20-year veteran of the country's LP community, explains what makes Korean LPs tick and outlines the best strategies for accessing this rich source of capital.

Optimising exits in an environment where liquidity is challenging has become a mainstay in some managers’ playbooks.

North American funds were the most active during H1 2025 in spite of growing geopolitical uncertainty.

The UK's biggest life and pensions provider has awarded two PE mandates for its DC default fund, head of private markets Cecile Retaureau tells PEI.

An LP that reinvests the proceeds into a first-quartile fund would see their portfolio outperform the value of holding the tail-end asset by year two – even assuming a 20% discount, according to research from Upwelling.

RMBV is also about to complete its second continuation fund transaction, PEI understands.

The $38bn pension fund aims to deploy around $1.4bn through GPs in PE, infrastructure and real estate, using a ‘co-GP model’ that brings in local partnerships.

Public market volatility stemming from uncertainty around the imposition of US tariffs could create carve-out opportunities in some regions.

Blackstone is bullish on the region and believes it will benefit from geopolitical uncertainty, Steve Schwarzman and Jon Gray tell Private Equity International.

The tech and healthcare investor is understood to have already raised more capital for its sophomore Spark II vehicle than its predecessor's final amount.