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Fintech's innovation and protection balancing act

Regulators are seeking to remove barriers to fintech innovation while also protecting consumers, write Benjamin Lyon and John Young, international counsels at Debevoise & Plimpton.

2 min read · 30 June 2020

Private equity and DC pensions: Three key challenges

How UK pensions have tackled the challenges of liquidity, fees and daily reporting will help guide their US counterparts.

4 min read · 24 June 2020

KKR makes record bets in Asia as pandemic ‘catalyses’ sales processes

Coronavirus uncertainty and liquidity constraints have made some business owners in the region more willing to sell, head of Asia-Pacific Ming Lu tells PEI.

4 min read · 24 June 2020

Why Prudential's investment unit and GIC want you to rethink illiquids

PGIM and Singapore's SWF have designed a framework that considers how commitment strategy and private markets allocations can affect a portfolio’s ability to meet liquidity demands.

3 min read · 10 June 2020

Vanguard private markets head: PE will come downmarket – updated

Private equity should be an asset class for the 99% of investors who 'need it more', says the index fund behemoth's Fran Kinniry.

3 min read · 09 June 2020

How private equity will be weaved into 401(k)s after government blessing

Because of the greater sophistication necessary for private equity investing, what’s not likely any time soon is that individual investors will be able to directly invest in a private equity fund as a standalone product.

3 min read · 05 June 2020

Your LPs want you to take the state aid lifeline

Investors are expecting their GPs to do everything they can to save portfolio companies and keep employees on the payroll – and that includes accepting eligible government support.

3 min read · 14 May 2020

Investors ramp up search for private markets managers

The covid-19 crisis is prompting portfolio re-evaluations and alternative assets are of particular interest, according to a bfinance report.

2 min read · 12 May 2020

Secondaries, distressed debt have uptick in LP interest – survey

These two strategies are the only alternative asset classes in which interest grew compared with last year, according to a report by Probitas Partners.

3 min read · 11 May 2020

China’s PE market had lost its shine before covid-19

Investors who rushed to join the country’s digital revolution are facing issues pre-dating the pandemic that could spell the end of private equity’s golden age.

3 min read · 07 May 2020

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