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Hermes: Emerging managers set to drive PE returns

The largest funds will become diversified, low-risk vehicles for large-scale deployments, said partner Elias Korosis at IPEM.

2 min read · 23 January 2019

France’s Apax eyes foreign expansion with ex-3i healthcare hire

Marc Benatar will help the firm expand its healthcare business to include companies in Benelux, Italy and French-speaking Switzerland, he tells PEI.

2 min read · 22 January 2019

AlpInvest shelves fund of firms fundraising – exclusive

The firm has decided not to continue capital raising for its fund focused on acquiring stakes in private equity GPs, PEI has learned.

2 min read · 11 January 2019

Europe mid-market roundtable: Mega in the middle

The European mid-market has taken on many of the characteristics of the large-cap space of old, but – say our panel – retains its most important differentiator: the scope for outperformance.

9 min read · 10 January 2019

AfricInvest to climb deal food chain, enter South Africa – updated

The Tunisia-headquartered firm will target around $500m for AfricInvest Fund IV, according to a source with knowledge of the fund.

2 min read · 08 January 2019

UK’s Bowmark ‘adapting focus’ as it hits Fund VI target

A key talking point with LPs was how UK firms are preparing for Brexit, managing partner Charles Ind told PEI.

2 min read · 03 January 2019

Alantra buys large chunk of Access Capital

The deal allows Access, a French fund of funds manager, to 'reaffirm its independence' in the face of a wave of consolidation in Europe.

2 min read · 20 December 2018

A year in listed mega-firms: New strategies and lots of fundraising

In 2018, listed giants Blackstone, Apollo, Carlyle and KKR gave us glimpses of what’s to come.

2 min read · 20 December 2018

What exit? GPs investing in other GPs are in it for the long haul

Private equity firms taking non-control stakes in other such firms is booming, but the off-ramps for such deals remain mostly theoretical.

3 min read · 20 December 2018

Ridgemont ups bitesize potential with larger fund

The firm – a spin out from Bank of America in 2010 – attracted roughly one-third of its $1.65bn Fund III from non-US investors, up from 12% in Fund II.

2 min read · 20 December 2018

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