Regulation

PEI was curious to learn how the private equity community was navigating the complex, and mentally draining, world of business travel.

US dealflow is super hot, said participants at Private Equity International's CFOs and COOs Forum 2021.

Regulators and fund managers are adapting to accommodate greater retail investor participation in private markets, say SEI's Ross Ellis and ANZU Research's Steve Unzicker.

Individual investors would like to invest in private equity but need a product, according to Schroders’ head of private equity.

The current debate about whether the inflation spike we are seeing is ‘transitory’ should be reframed as ‘reflation vs sustained inflation’, according to Commonfund’s Ryan Driscoll.

An incoming EU directive pertaining to third-party pre-marketing activity could exacerbate the challenges facing UK fund managers, say Debevoise & Plimpton's Patricia Volhard, Jin-Hyuk Jang and John Young.

Fund managers are increasingly outsourcing administrative operations in order to focus on adding value to assets and investor relations, says Ocorian’s head of alternative investments, Simon Burgess.

Only 10% of Asian PE deals had insurance last year, versus 80% of those in North America.

Caution from the SEC, combined with the sheer number of SPACs in market, could prompt sponsors to recut or restructure their economics, the law firm noted in a webinar this week.

The Australian government partially backtracked on plans to compare superannuation funds’ unlisted investment performance with listed benchmarks.