Private Equity
The number of funds that have closed so far in 2020 is down 50% year-on-year while the dollar value of capital raised remains steady, PEI data show.
2 min read · 14 October 2020
Shanghai-based Chris Lerner and another senior executive are understood to have left the placement agent and advisory firm in August.
2 min read · 11 October 2020
The covid-19 crisis has done nothing to derail the transition to a carbon-free economy, being driven by some of the world's largest assets owners, the UN climate envoy has said.
2 min read · 08 October 2020
The pandemic is an opportunity to return to a 'better normal', according to Yoshitaka Todoroki, who oversees PE and infra at the $1.5trn Japanese pension giant.
2 min read · 08 October 2020
Institutional investors want to avoid mistakes they made post-GFC and want to capitalise on investment opportunities working around covid-19-induced limitations, Probitas has found.
3 min read · 05 October 2020
KKR Asian Fund IV, which has been in market since March, is already 40% larger than its 2017-vintage predecessor.
2 min read · 05 October 2020
ATP Private Equity Partners, which invests on behalf of the country's largest pension, will raise third-party capital for the first time.
2 min read · 02 October 2020
Laura Coquis, who was most recently managing director at OMERS, joins Aviditi Advisors along with recent hires from KKR and First Avenue Partners.
2 min read · 01 October 2020
The firm made a 6.5% GP commitment to Fund X, the largest by far across its vehicles, managing partner Kristoffer Melinder tells PEI.
3 min read · 01 October 2020
Private equity investors favouring familiarity in times of crisis could miss out on opportunities to deploy capital, a panel has heard.
2 min read · 30 September 2020
