Private Equity
The 500 largest fund managers held $2.5trn of alternative AUM at the end of last year, up 5% from 2015, according to the P&I/Willis Towers Watson global 500.
1 min read · 31 October 2017
LPs lacking knowledge of the market could drive up valuations, Jean Claude Bastos de Morais, chief executive of Quantum Global, tells PEI.
2 min read · 31 October 2017
The Canadian pension wants to make more direct investments and find investment partners in the Asia-Pacific region.
2 min read · 27 October 2017
Impact investors can no longer go it alone. To make a real difference, they must connect with governments, NGOs and corporates to work towards a common goal.
2 min read · 25 October 2017
Private equity is a relatively new concept for Ghana’s pension funds, having only been authorised by the country’s National Pension Regulatory Authority on 1 April.
2 min read · 23 October 2017
The firm’s COO, Tony James, sees the traditional 10-year private equity fund as ‘a bit of a treadmill’.
2 min read · 19 October 2017
The insurer's head of alternatives is a fan of private equity, but wants to put the capital to work on his own terms.
6 min read · 18 October 2017
The Apax and Bridges co-founder wants 100 pension funds and endowments to allocate 5-10 percent of their assets to impact investing.
2 min read · 17 October 2017
The Auckland-based sovereign wealth fund plans to accelerate direct investments in the country, adding to its $3.5bn domestic portfolio.
2 min read · 17 October 2017
Industry practitioners agree the best managers in the lower mid-market are producing the best returns private equity can offer – but identifying those groups is not an easy task.
3 min read · 12 October 2017
