Performance

Teacher Retirement System of Texas moved up one spot from last year’s AIC annual public pension fund analysis, which ranks the top performing public pensions’ PE portfolios.

KKR CFO Bill Janetschek said the latest fund, focusing on buyouts and growth investments in the Americas, will begin deploying capital in the first half of next year.

Details on the firm’s $10bn Fund VI and its $875m investment from Dyal Capital Partners.

  Operating partners are driving investment theses amid heightened competition and pricing, said panellists at PEI's Operating Partners Forum

Panelists at PEI’s Operating Partners Forum agree that the shift and expansion of operating partners' roles are driven by investors' desire for greater transparency.

Every portfolio company’s value creation story is different, but there are a few common operational levers private equity firms can pull to stimulate growth and boost returns.

Thoma Bravo’s funds have satisfied their LPs to justify their streak of no preferred return going forward.

Subscription credit lines can artificially boost IRRs, private equity advisor TorreyCove says in a report.

Data from Cambridge Associates show first and second funds to be some of the best performing, with sector-focused offerings losing less money than generalists.

The $6.1bn university endowment’s investment office, which has more than a quarter of its assets in private equity, is considering a move to the Big Apple to source better candidates for its 20-person team.