Private Equity

Investment Allocations

How the world's family offices allocate their assets

Private equity is the most popular alternative asset among the world's family offices, according to research by UBS.

2 min read · 25 September 2018

High fees remain biggest barrier to private markets – survey

Other obstacles include lack of in-house expertise, difficulty finding good managers and challenges executing co-investments, according to bfinance.

2 min read · 19 September 2018

Why ‘contrarian’ South Dakota is bearish on PE

The $14.8bn pension manager is slowing its deployment to private equity and other equity-like assets to cut risk.

3 min read · 17 September 2018

New Mexico SIC's private equity portfolio in five charts

On Tuesday, the $24bn sovereign wealth fund will vote on a subscription to a portfolio management service to aid due diligence and portfolio monitoring across private equity, real return and real estate.

2 min read · 27 August 2018

Insurers acquire taste for CEE funds

They accounted for 7% of CEE fundraising in 2017, having committed nothing in the previous two years, research has found.

1 min read · 27 August 2018

Santa Barbara's PE portfolio in five charts

The $3bn fund is increasing its private equity activity after raising its target allocation to 10% from 7% in 2016.

1 min read · 23 August 2018

US family offices shun Europe, emerging markets

Domestic PE was at least 10 times as popular, according to Schroder Adveq data.

2 min read · 21 August 2018

CalPERS board gives go-ahead for PE policy revamp

The pension has changed the way it calculates investment limits and eliminated the category of 'direct investments'.

2 min read · 16 August 2018

CPPIB's PE portfolio in four charts

PE accounted for 20.9% of the investment portfolio, making it the third-largest asset class behind public equity and bonds.

1 min read · 15 August 2018

Finland's Keva earmarks investment capital to plug spending gap

Private equity was the pension's best asset class in the first half and could play a key role in filling the income shortfall.

2 min read · 13 August 2018

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