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Stellar returns have driven a huge amount of capital to technology-related investments.
Can past performance help LPs pick future winners?
The sovereign wealth fund, with estimated assets of $828bn, will broaden its focus in ‘rapidly developing’ Asian private equity markets.
EMH, which recently hired former EQT pro Thomas von Werner, has hit its €350m hard cap and raised a further pool of co-investment capital.
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The £380m TMT fund will have returned nearly 40 percent of invested cost.
Friday’s hung parliament election result means British private equity faces a challenging road ahead.
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Concerns over market conditions are prompting investors to seek relative safety, but there are dangers in following the crowd, writes Private Debt Investor senior editor Andy Thomson.
Some investors are in favour of reducing the frequency of capital drawdowns, but many are concerned about the risks of extending loan periods.
Private equity performance for the Canadian pension, which had C$59bn in the asset class at 31 March, was boosted by higher returns in the domestic and foreign developed market segments.
A strong year of exits was led by the refinancing of discount retailer Action which delivered a multiple of more than 20x.