Private Equity
The fund will be for employees of Leonard Green portfolio companies adversely impacted by the outbreak of covid-19.
2 min read · 19 March 2020
David Larsen, a managing director at Duff & Phelps, says investors should seek guidance from their GPs as to likely discounts.
2 min read · 19 March 2020
Limited partners who have piled into the asset class in recent years could be left severely overweighted in private equity unless public markets see a significant recovery.
4 min read · 19 March 2020
Prevailing wisdom is that funds in market or just coming out would have to add another three to six months on top of their fundraising schedules.
4 min read · 18 March 2020
The pension's portfolio has lost billions in value as the public markets have struggled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
2 min read · 18 March 2020
“It might not be because of the coronavirus directly, but certainly because of all that’s being done to prevent or slow the spread of it”.
2 min read · 18 March 2020
First-time fund managers are set to have an even tougher time on the fundraising trail amid the pandemic, but there could be opportunities for those raising capital on a deal-by-deal basis.
3 min read · 18 March 2020
The coronavirus pandemic is one of multiple threats to manager-initiated deals, which accounted for around one-third of total secondaries market volume last year.
6 min read · 17 March 2020
Drawdowns could enable managers to pre-empt liquidity issues arising from the pandemic but may compound the problem for certain LPs.
3 min read · 17 March 2020
Eight things private equity managers and their portfolio companies should do to limit impact from the coronavirus, according to the Netherlands' Achmea Investment Management.
2 min read · 16 March 2020
