A new study shows domestic economic uncertainty and concerns over lack of access to capital continue to offset indicators of an improving business environment among major private equity providers.  The study from the 2016 Private Capital Markets Project from Pepperdine University Graziadio School of Business and Management also reveals key

Latin American ultra-high net worth (UHNW) business executives are keen on opportunities for mergers and acquisitions, with many likely to pursue deals in the short-term, according to a new report from Campden Wealth Research, in partnership with Morgan Stanley. The newly published “Risk & Return in Latin America” finds that

The allocation of risk in the design of contracts for mergers and acquisitions continues to favour sellers in Europe, and the selling side is in a much stronger negotiating position. That’s the conclusion of the eighth CMS European M&A Study.  Last year, sellers were more often able to incorporate lower

CMS’s 8th annual M&A Study predicts an uncertain year despite the record levels of deal value in 2015. In the study, CMS analyses over 2,000 of its non-listed European public and private company deals between 2010 and 2015. The uncertainty is attributed to a number of grey or black swan

Uneven portfolio company performance may be driving private equity fund managers’ modest expectations in 2016, according to the seventh annual PErspective Private Equity Study by BDO USA. Twenty-two per cent of fund managers surveyed report that 16 to 20 per cent of their portfolio companies are performing below forecast, while

This year’s annual VCT Manager poll by the Association of Investment Companies (AIC) finds the majority of VCT managers optimistic about current investment opportunities. Almost half of respondents said that they are currently finding a similar number of investment opportunities to last year, before the rule changes; around a fifth

The vast majority of respondents to private equity fund administrator Augentius’ latest annual survey are cautiously optimistic about the outlook for the industry in 2016. Approximately 81 per cent of those surveyed believe that the general market climate in 2016 will be either the same (44.44 per cent) or more positive (36.51 per cent). Just over

The introduction of the EU Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) is having little impact on the scale of US alternative fund managers’ activity in the European market, according to research looking at US manager attitudes towards the regulation. The ‘Impact of AIFMD on the European & US alternative fund

Operational improvement has become the main source of value creation in private equity, increasing its share from 18 per cent in the 1980s to 48 per cent in 2012, according to a new report by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). When PE professionals were asked their most frequently used approach