Private Equity

Direct investing

LPs put emphasis on due diligence as they get selective

Investors that are still actively investing are spending more time drilling into fund managers.

4 min read · 04 December 2023

Q&A with Blue Owl Capital co-president Craig Packer

Credit agreements with borrowers remain ‘attractive and consistent’ in the second half of 2023, according to Packer.

3 min read · 01 November 2023

Deep Dive: Why alignment is Aware Super's 'North Star'

PEI spoke with Aware Super’s global head of private equity, Jenny Newmarch, about the pension’s appetite for emerging managers, increasing its direct investments, and the decision to open its first office outside of Australia in London.

10 min read · 03 October 2023

PE’s slowdown is giving Malaysia’s PNB room to breathe

The state-backed investor is doubling down on GP due diligence as fundraising timelines lengthen, its CIO for private and strategic investments tells PEI.

7 min read · 28 August 2023

How Canada’s BCI stays liquid in an illiquid market

The $173bn institution is offloading PE stakes via secondaries as it looks to deploy more capital into directs, global PE head Jim Pittman tells PEI.

4 min read · 15 August 2023

How HK’s Sun Hung Kai & Co. is thinking about its GP relationships

The roughly $5.5bn investment manager has stressed the need for discipline after a challenging year for tech valuations and exit activity.

5 min read · 10 August 2023

Korea’s NPS commits another $19bn to PE, debt

The pension made at least 52 new PE commitments in 2022, bringing the total number of funds and projects in its portfolio to 456, per its latest annual report.

2 min read · 08 August 2023

How Union Bancaire Privée is creating more liquidity in private markets

A blend of side letters, income-generating strategies and secondaries has 'reduced the pain threshold' for UBP’s private clients, Michael Ostro, head of private markets group Asia, tells PEI.

6 min read · 12 July 2023

Swimming against the tide: M&G’s £5bn Catalyst fund ponders China entry

Catalyst, a sustainability-focused private markets strategy, is drawn to opportunities in China’s burgeoning renewable energy sector, APAC head Matthew O’Sullivan tells PEI.

6 min read · 08 June 2023

LP investments: Growing local roots

In-state investment programmes have a long history, but are we are seeing a new movement of local investing among some LPs in the US and beyond?

8 min read · 02 May 2023

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