Private Equity

Investment Allocations

Family offices lean on private equity to dampen losses

Organisations with a higher allocation to the asset class significantly outperformed their peers, a report has found.

3 min read · 17 June 2019

Temasek’s Azalea ups retail offering in latest CFO

Astrea V is backed by cashflows from a diversified pool of private equity funds managed by firms including KKR, TPG and Warburg Pincus.

2 min read · 12 June 2019

NJ's private equity programme emerges from uncertainty

Governor Phil Murphy’s anti-private equity rhetoric during his campaign triggered a hold on commitment but the state’s pension system wants to re-establish its standing.

5 min read · 11 June 2019

Warburg Pincus’s latest China fund: Three things to know

Documents from a US pension provide a glimpse under the bonnet of Warburg Pincus China-Southeast Asia II which is seeking $4.3bn.

2 min read · 05 June 2019

Investors

China’s tech revolution creates diversification headache for LPs

A growing number of Chinese businesses are being marketed as TMT-based, an industry conference in Hong Kong has heard.

3 min read · 03 June 2019

LPs boost 2019 PE allocations to accommodate choice funds

Employees’ Retirement System of Texas and Teachers’ Retirement System of Louisiana are already over-allocated to private equity.

2 min read · 29 May 2019

How Rhode Island plans to use secondaries to boost its PE exposure

PEI speaks with senior investment officer Jonathan Popielarski about the types of fund stakes the US pension wants to buy so it can hit its 11% target allocation.

4 min read · 21 May 2019

CalSTRS board approves reorganisation of PE portfolio

The restructuring will allow CalSTRS to invest in ‘non-traditional’ private equity strategies with different return expectations and focus on co-investments.

3 min read · 09 May 2019

Insurers warm to private equity as yields edge lower

Private equity is expected to deliver the highest returns in the next 12 months by 43% of respondents, the highest of any asset class, according to GSAM research.

2 min read · 02 May 2019

Why GPIF's Hiro wants better alignment, not lower fees

Hiromichi Mizuno was tasked with guiding the world's largest pension fund into alternatives. He tells PEI what he learned in his four-year tenure.

9 min read · 30 April 2019

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