Investment Allocations

The end of the rapid fundraising era, dealing with LP rejection and an overreliance on performance as a selling point were some of the themes that emerged in a jam-packed two days in New York.

North American GPs accounted for 89% of Petershill Partners' invested capital as of end-December, with the remainder in Europe, according to its maiden full-year earnings.

The Japan Science and Technology Agency's university endowment will initially rely on gatekeepers until it has enough internal resources to invest directly, PE head Yasuyuki Tomita tells PEI.

AXA Hong Kong and Japan will source PE opportunities as an extension of the insurer's current primaries model, which is managed centrally from Germany.

PEI catches up with Kosmo Kalliarekos, managing director and 14-year veteran of Baring Private Equity Asia, to discuss alignment, IPOs and regulation ahead of its €6.8bn acquisition by EQT.

Managers are looking for increasingly sophisticated data automation strategies, but cybersecurity and functionality must come first, say TMF Group’s Andrew O’Shea and Oliver Sinclair.

Private Equity International sits down with the Blackstone president and COO to discuss Ukraine, what inflation and rising rates could mean for private equity and the firm's path to $1trn in AUM.

End-to-end digitisation for GPs reduces administrative costs, streamlines investor processes and provides them with the tools to access an ever-expanding wealth management market, says Bite Investments CEO William Rudebeck.

A tumultuous 2021 saw records set in deal and exit value, while US listings of Chinese companies tumbled due to regulatory upheaval, the report found.

Firms must ensure individual investors are sufficiently educated, said executives from Skandia Mutual Life Insurance Company and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan at Invest Europe’s Investors’ Forum last week.