Private Equity
'There’s a tremendous amount of pressure to get money invested, which results in managers accepting investments without the standard governance practices you’d like to see,' says Alaska Permanent CIO Marcus Frampton.
3 min read · 08 December 2022
Institutional investors are pulling back from venture funds and spending more time managing their private equity portfolios through secondary sales, a new Probitas Partners survey says.
3 min read · 02 December 2022
Missouri State Employees’ Retirement System reported that it had exposure to FTX, the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange, through a PE co-investment fund.
2 min read · 18 November 2022
Fundraising will be more difficult in 2023, as big pensions such as Texas Teachers, LACERA and Sacramento County ERS say they plan to slow their PE investing pace.
4 min read · 18 November 2022
The system, which has backed recent funds from Canvas, CRV, Khosla and Threshold, plans to target $260m in PE commitments in 2023, down from $340m so far this year.
2 min read · 17 November 2022
Despite the general fear of a recession looming, the optimism around the emerging manager landscape was pronounced at the inaugural Emerging Manager Circle Summit.
6 min read · 10 November 2022
LACERA, MassPRIM and Northwestern Mutual are among those that have set aside capital to invest in firms owned by women or minorities.
7 min read · 07 November 2022
Preliminary data from placement agent Probitas Partners’ annual survey of institutional investors shows a sharp decline in interest in VC funds around the globe.
3 min read · 04 November 2022
A dislocated market and several niches could bode well for healthcare, according to EisnerAmper.
2 min read · 28 October 2022
The South Yorkshire Pensions Authority’s impact portfolio outperformed the general portfolio in the last financial year, but ‘we weren’t searching for impact,' director George Graham said at GIIN’s investor forum.
2 min read · 18 October 2022
