UK mid-market private equity activity in the UK reached new highs in H1, compared to the same period in 2018 and 2019, according to new research by KPMG.

After two years of record benchmark returns, some limited partners in the asset class are confronting the reality of below-average performance, with a survey by Private Equity Wire predicting average returns will continue to fall in H2 2022.

Private equity benchmark returns have begun a descent from their post-pandemic high as a new macroeconomic reality of geopolitical tension, interest rate rises and recession bites.

Global dealmaking by private equity funds has collapsed in the first half of 2022 as banks have pulled back financing in a risk-off environment.

With the IPO market grinding to a veritable halt in 2022, GPs are looking for other exit routes in the second half of the year, with private M&A channels taking the lead.

Pension funds and other institutional investors have focused on protecting portfolios and seeking out new sources of potential return in private markets amid ongoing volatility.

The pandemic accelerated private equity fundraising and deployment in the technology sector but this year’s tech stock crash is forcing a recalculation among some GPs… Last year, during a keynote address in Berlin, one of the founders of Thoma Bravo, Orlando Bravo, declared: “Software is not an industry… software is

Third-party service providers were once focused on fund administration and accounting, but they are fast extending into the middle and front offices of private equity firms. Operational efficiencies and pressure from LPs will accelerate the shift… After more than three decades of transforming their portfolio companies, private equity firms are

Within private equity fund portfolios and across the economy lie treasure troves of valuable financial information. GPs are feeding it into algorithms and prediction models to bolster their strategy…

Not-for-profit investors see private markets as the biggest opportunity for higher returns in the coming years, according to Mercer’s first Global Not-for-Profit (NFP) Investment Survey.