Private Equity

Trends & Research

BNP Paribas: 'Ultrapreneurs' make bigger bet on private equity

Nearly half of entrepreneurs with investable assets of at least $25m increased their allocations to direct private equity deals, according to a report from the French bank’s private wealth unit.

3 min read · 12 July 2021

Four charts on European buyout fund terms

A recent report from Proskauer Rose shows GPs have greater autonomy on term extensions.

3 min read · 07 July 2021

Global Investor 100 2021: Methodology

How the Global Investor 100 was created.

2 min read · 01 July 2021

Four factors enabling HNW growth in private markets

Morgan Stanley said in a recent report it expects 'additional high-net-worth allocations to represent around $1.5trn of AUM by 2025'.

3 min read · 29 June 2021

The ex-Riverstone exec shaking up the PE fund model

Grafine Partners' founder and chief executive Elizabeth Weymouth on increasing LP sophistication and opportunity in the cracks of the blind-pool model.

4 min read · 29 June 2021

Chart: Top 50 managers and their strategies visualised – 2021

Growth equity, secondaries, impact funds and long-hold vehicles cropped up in this year's list of the industry's biggest firms and the strategies they manage.

1 min read · 17 June 2021

SoftBank Vision Fund CFO: Predictive analytics ‘will drive value’

Smarter analytics will 'forecast future performance, identify untapped opportunities, expose hidden risks, and assist in strategic decision making,' Navneet Govil, SoftBank Vision Fund CFO, said at PEI's CFO & COOs Forum last week.

2 min read · 16 June 2021

Coller Capital's PE Barometer in five charts

'The fact that half of all private equity investors think ESG investing will in itself boot their portfolio returns should be a wake up call to anyone who still thinks ESG is a 'nice to have' or a PR tool,' said founder Jeremy Coller.

1 min read · 13 June 2021

Schroders to launch democratising public-private blended products

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

3 min read · 08 June 2021

How PE learned to stop worrying and love inflation

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.

3 min read · 02 June 2021

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