Alex Lynn
GPs are finding ways to get round investors’ reluctance to pay fees for running portfolio companies.
Complexity, opacity and a lack of standardization have slowed efforts to improve reporting, a conference has heard.
The lender’s head of global fund banking for EMEA tells PEI about the implications of the Abraaj Group saga, enhancements in underwriting, changing LP bases and fee structures.
Under-representation of women can have serious consequences in private equity.
Management fees, hurdle rates and carried interest waterfalls; a visual guide to economic fund terms today.
The firm joins the likes of KKR, CVC and BlackRock in targeting long-term cashflows from market-leading companies.
For shareholders, the true appeal of listed fund managers such as Blackstone, Carlyle and KKR lies in their long-term potential.
UK private equity funds are under increased scrutiny from continental investors but US LPs seem to have fewer doubts.
Distributed ledgers can track where money moves, giving GPs and LPs better oversight on how their capital is being deployed.
A majority of LPs find recruitment and internal resource constraints to be significant barriers to improving PE returns, according to Coller Capital's latest survey.