Private Equity

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Impact-linked carry is good news – if you can pull it off

A trickle of fund managers choosing to link carried interest to their impact and ESG targets is good news for private markets, showing the industry is serious about its sustainability goals.

3 min read · 14 October 2021

Robert Smith, Bank of America anchor emerging Trident

The firm aims to excite positive social change in American small businesses, says Brightwood Capital, and Goldman Sachs Special Sits alumni, founder Eric Taylor.

3 min read · 12 October 2021

Six lessons operating partners have learned from 18 months of disruption

Notes from a pandemic: How management teams and operating partners have learned to cope with covid.

7 min read · 01 October 2021

OpEx Awards 21: Meet the judges

This year’s judging panel is comprised of industry experts from around the globe.

4 min read · 01 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

Performance watch: Baring Private Equity Asia

The Hong Kong-headquartered firm is seeking $8.5bn for BPEA Fund VIII, according to documents prepared for Rhode Island State Treasury.

1 min read · 07 September 2021

Dai-ichi Life’s VC head: International LPs struggle to enter US funds

Silicon Valley GPs are urging international LPs to back their larger growth funds in lieu of VC offerings due to capacity constraints, Masashi Kataoka, head of the $350bn insurer’s venture unit, tells PEI.

4 min read · 02 September 2021

New Mexico SIC sees strong PE performance but misses benchmark

The system’s national private equity portfolio underperformed the Cambridge US PE Index by 1.44%, even as the program experienced a $295m net gain in Q1.

2 min read · 01 September 2021

Investec: How covid has changed the secondaries industry

The rise of GP-led secondaries is raising interesting questions about the level of returns LPs should be expecting, say Investec Fund Solutions' Ian Wiese and Michael Zornitta.

5 min read · 31 August 2021

Texas ERS sets course to increase exposure to PE

The system's PE chief does not foresee major disruptions despite staff concerns about potential impacts of the covid-19 Delta variant.

3 min read · 31 August 2021

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