Three recent surveys reveal that investors in private equity funds are hindered by practicalities and frustrated by GP attitudes but excited by long-term performance. Andy Thomson reprts
3 min read · 08 February 2013
What lies in store for the 2009 fundraising market? PEI assesses the mood of limited partners around the world and finds out which LPs have risen to the top of the popularity stakes. By Matt Levin
10 min read · 08 February 2013
In the absence of exit opportunities, venture firms are increasingly turning to the secondaries market to generate liquidity. Christopher Witkowsky reports
3 min read · 08 February 2013
A UK diagnostics firm is launching an aggressive growth strategy
1 min read · 08 February 2013
Christopher Flowers should be making hay. But at the outset of an historic buying opportunity, why are some of his firm's limited partners running for cover? Matt Levin and David Snow investigate
6 min read · 08 February 2013
KKR Financial has been given an ultimatum by the New York Stock Exchange
2 min read · 08 February 2013
These days, it's hard to tell fact from fiction 2009-02-01 Staff Writer Sometimes the consumer press scoops us big time, such as the news that investment banking giant Goldman Sachs has acquired private equity powerhouse TPG. This from consumer-electric news site CNET, reporting last month on the exit from A
2 min read · 08 February 2013
Credit, or the lack of credit, is on everyone’s minds. For some real estate investors it is presenting an ideal opportunity to provide financing where financing is badly needed.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
Proposals to create a ‘bad bank’ to soak up the toxic assets clogging the US financial markets have been welcomed by real estate professionals. However, veterans of the RTC warn against simply ‘moving pieces round the board’.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
Fund placement agents active in the asset class say LPs are likely to stick with infrastructure despite the economic downturn and may even up their commitments as a result of it.
3 min read · 08 February 2013
