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FUNDRAISING SPECIALThe implications of the liquidity crisis remain unclear, but confidence is high that investors will not lose their appetite for private equity – and even the larger funds finding it difficult to finance new deals don't seem to be losing support. Andy Thomson reports.
- Embracing the cycle
Oaktree Capital Management is an alternative asset manager well placed to profit from this summer's liquidity crisis. In a rare interview, co-founder and chairman Howard Marks talked with PEI about changes in market cycles, his firm's innovative investment approach and the decision to float its management company, on Goldman's private exchange.
- BEWARE OF STYLE DRIFT
Ten years ago, some of the largest firms got creative when debt became scarce – with disastrous results.
- …PRIVATE EQUITY PROTEST 2
?PRIVATE EQUITY PROTEST 2 2007-10-01 Staff Writer Meanwhile, Yorkshire-based climate campaigners decamped to the London office of mid-market GP Bridgepoint to make clear their objection to any expansion of Leeds-Bradford airport, which Bridgepoint acquired for £146 million (€214 million; $297 million) in May
- ALTERNATIVE ASCENSION
As Merrill Lynch, Citi and Morgan Stanley reeled from the sub-prime meltdown, alternative investment executives loomed as potential saviors.
- Fast bucks
Taking full advantage of ultra-liquid debt markets, buyout funds are handing big sums of cash back to investors. As holding periods shorten, are limited partners in danger of getting too comfortable with private equity's new short-termism, asks Philip Borel.
- RISK-RESISTANT
RISK-RESISTANT 2007-09-01 Staff Writer France's world-famous Le Mans 24-hour car race is, as the name would suggest, a test of endurance. It is also, in at least equal measure, an examination of nerves. Two examples illustrate this well. In 1955
- LIKE IT'S 1999
Sun Capital takes a second swing with a subprime lender.
- THROW IT OUT, START FROM SCRATCH
Germany's association of alternative investors is unimpressed with the government's effort to reform private equity legislation.
- Bigger than most
How do you steer an LP super tanker through the sometimes choppy waters of global private equity? In October,Wim Borgdorff, head of fund investment at AlpInvest Partners, spoke to Philip Borel about the challenges facing Europe's largest limited partner.