Private Equity

Long-Term Funds

Brookfield to enter growing ranks of long-duration investors

The goal is to provide for stable and predictable cashflows and market leadership positions that result in compounding returns over a longer timeframe, the firm has said.

2 min read · 18 November 2021

The man behind the continuation fund boom

If you’re a GP trying to figure out how to hold onto prized assets for longer, chances are you’ve had a call with Evercore’s Nigel Dawn.

10 min read · 28 September 2021

Secondaries: Keep you holding on

The notion that GPs must let go of assets within a specific period of time has been turned on its head.

3 min read · 01 September 2021

EQT eyes €12bn for long-hold and Asia strategies

The firm launched a longer-hold PE strategy early this year and is readying a similar vehicle focused on core infrastructure.

2 min read · 22 July 2021

Four ways GPs are expanding their capital bases – McKinsey report

PE firms are diversifying away from traditional third-party blind-pool fundraises amid further inflows from long-duration funds, GP stakes, insurance M&A and SPACs.

3 min read · 28 April 2021

Private equity has a penchant for holding onto winners – and it's paying off

Data released this week show the average hold period for PE assets is at a record high, underscoring a wider trend that's appearing in various forms across the industry.

2 min read · 22 April 2021

Long-term funds face a double whammy

Competing sources of capital and a strategy yet to be untested during a downturn pose challenges for long-hold fundraisings.

2 min read · 07 January 2021

Chart: Who's raised the largest long-term funds?

BlackRock is reportedly stepping down capital-raising efforts for its long-term capital fund, a strategy that has raised nearly $50bn from LPs in the last five years.

2 min read · 05 January 2021

Will long-life PE eat infra’s lunch?

A new asset class targeting ‘durable, high-quality companies with predictable cashflows and based in non-cyclical sectors’ sounds awfully familiar.

3 min read · 24 November 2020

How Castik will deploy its second long-term fund

The long-life fund manager raised €1.25bn for its second offering, one of the latest in a strategy garnering more attention amid the crisis.

3 min read · 05 November 2020

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