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Value Creation Forum: Beware companies with ‘covid steroids in the system’

Businesses that should seek new ownership aren’t being listed for sale during coronavirus, Tim Sims, founder of Pacific Equity Partners, tells delegates at PEI’s Value Creation Forum: Asia.

2 min read · 07 December 2020

Deep Dive: So you're thinking of spinning out?

Covid-19 has left many investment professionals wondering whether they could garner better economics by setting up their own funds. We spoke to 21 market sources involved in successful spin-outs about leaving an established franchise and starting anew.

10 min read · 02 December 2020

LatAm HNWIs are waiting for the recovery

The pandemic has upended high-net-worth investors in the region’s near- to medium-term appetite for alternative asset classes.

2 min read · 01 December 2020

Portfolio firms reinvent themselves and become Covid chameleons

Lessons learned from PE-backed companies that had the vision to nimbly reinvent their operations in response to the pandemic

7 min read · 01 December 2020

Debut managers may lose out due to covid

Half of LPs want to increase fund manager relationships, but covid-19 restrictions could put a damper on these plans, with first-time managers hardest hit.

3 min read · 01 December 2020

Perspectives 2021: Seven LP opinions that matter

Private Equity International’s LP Perspectives 2021 Study takes the temperature of the investor community as it looks to the year ahead.

4 min read · 01 December 2020

Covid-19 upends the fundraising process

Investors appear to have adapted quickly to virtual processes, but which of the pandemic-driven changes are here to stay?

4 min read · 01 December 2020

On the minds of investors going into 2021

What’s in store for private equity next year and beyond? A selection of Future 40 investors share their perspectives on the issues impacting the industry.

6 min read · 01 December 2020

Pent-up demand points to big 2021 for secondaries

Demand among buyers and LPs’ desire to manage their portfolios in the wake of covid-19 point to healthy transaction secondaries volumes in the year ahead.

3 min read · 01 December 2020

Pandemic does not dent LPs' co-investment appetite

LPs are focusing on opportunities with familiar managers as forging new relationships proves tough when face-to-face meetings are not possible.

4 min read · 01 December 2020

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