Private Equity

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Recent initiatives place MetLife in the GI 100 vanguard

The $639bn insurer has made headway in recent years across co-investments, emerging managers and the secondaries market.

3 min read · 01 July 2022

Bpifrance turns innovation into growth

The sovereign investor, which ranked 13th in this year’s list, is well known for encouraging its GPs to innovate sustainably and expand into new areas of investment.

4 min read · 01 July 2022

PE is getting crowded, and that’s how QIC likes it

Heady fundraising could force GPs to deploy and inflate valuations. Far from being concerned, Stephen Whatmore spies a lucrative path to exit for QIC’s private capital portfolio.

10 min read · 10 May 2022

PE’s democratisation carries ‘big risk’ for industry, LPs warn

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.

3 min read · 29 March 2022

CalPERS eyes another $10bn-plus to private equity as it works towards its target

The US's largest public pension deployed $12.3bn to PE last year, its second straight year of $10bn-plus deployment.

2 min read · 15 February 2022

PE market bifurcation brings reckoning for those in the middle

Investor money is flowing toward those that can offer scale, specialisation or both, Partners Group CEO David Layton told PEI.

2 min read · 21 January 2022

Family offices now make up the bulk of Brazilian fund investment

Through H1 2021, private equity and venture capital investments in Brazil totalled $5.7bn, according to LAVCA – more than the full-year total in 2020.

3 min read · 08 December 2021

The investors targeting impact

Investors are turning to impact to direct their money towards areas that align with their missions and values.

7 min read · 01 November 2021

Sixth Street's second growth effort will balance equity and debt

The strategy will seek up to $4.25bn between the main fund and a sidecar with a slightly modified mandate, according to documents from New Mexico SIC.

2 min read · 25 October 2021

CalPERS PE exposure to China education sector 'very limited'

The board raised concerns during last week's investment committee meeting about investments in the region in light of regulatory uncertainty.

3 min read · 20 September 2021

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