For the third year running, SS&C Intralinks and Private Equity Wire have partnered to produce an annual survey, the 2020 LP Survey: Insights into Alternative Investments. »

FPE Capital Managing Partner, David Barbour, speaks with PE Wire about the firm’s unique relationship with Stonehage Fleming, the opportunity set for UK growth capital investors and its focus on tech-enabled businesses in the lower mid-market… »

By James Williams & Paul Bryant – Capital is flowing into ESG investments with many private equity GPs now on the case. But to stay ahead, they will need credible evidence of impact, not just slick marketing.    »

Astarte Capital Partners is hoping that its new discretionary co-investment platform, the Astarte Special Opportunities Platform (ASOP), will help facilitate investor allocations to European ‘real assets’ and encourage a greater alignment of interests with operating companies over the long term.  »

CEPRES has released its latest investment analysis based on transactional private markets data of 72,772 investments across 7,189 funds valued at USD26.5 trillion. »

The recent acquisition of Estera by Inflexion Private Equity, a leading PE group with GBP5.4 billion in AUM, signals a move by private equity firms to explore M&A opportunities in the fund administration and corporate & trust services arena, which remains a relatively new, standalone sector.  »

RFA has come a long way since it first opened for business in 1989. Now the firm, which has over 800 clients, is one of the biggest cloud providers to the alternative investment sector, offering state-of-the-art cybersecurity services and fully managed IT and CTO consultancy services. »

With interest in infrastructure investing increasing significantly in recent years, AMP Capital's David Rees explains how asset managers are looking to new technology to bring PE-like rigour to the sector and add value for investors… »