The latest CEPRES Private Equity Buyout analysis shows the IRR spread between top performing funds and the market median has significantly increased since the GFC. The analysis, based on primary sourced cash flow data from over 7,000 funds on the CEPRES platform, shows that between Vintage Year 2009 and 2018,
Natixis and EDHECinfra have launched a new three-year research chair, directed by the same team that created an unlisted infrastructure indexing platform, to create useable, comparable documented measures of the impact and risk profile of social and environmental factors on infrastructure investments. ESG refers to the central factors in measuring
New research from Mactavish, the leading expert on commercial insurance placement and disputes, reveals many private equity firms are not placing enough focus on the quality of insurance cover in place at portfolio companies. Mactavish warns that organisations are generally taking on more risks as their businesses change, but many
PitchBook, a data provider for the private and public equity markets, has entered into an agreement with Liquidnet’s RSRCHXchange a marketplace and aggregator of institutional research, to offer PitchBook clients access to RSRCHXchange’s extensive marketplace of institutional broker research in 2020. RSRCHXchange’s virtual library will be accessible through PitchBook’s Research Center,
Asset owners and managers are increasing their investment in Cashflow Driven Investment (CDI) assets, such as Infrastructure, according to data released by RiskFirst covering over GBP1 trillion of assets. The average allocation to CDI eligible assets, such as infrastructure, private and multi-asset credit, has more than doubled since the beginning
New research reveals a sharp fall in sentiment towards the UK’s investment environment, even though overall it remains positive, according to the annual Investment 360 Index conducted by management consultancy CIL. The Index is based on research amongst private equity investors, management teams, corporate debt providers and business advisors in
Despite political and economic uncertainty created by Brexit, the UK has improved its already attractive risk-return profile for private equity investors, according to the latest annual Global Private Equity Performance Series from eFront. UK LBO performance figures remained at a similar level in 2018 to that seen the previous year,
Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS), a business intelligence, data analytics, and research platform for corporate, academic and government institutions worldwide, has Preqin private equity data to its offerings. As a part of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, WRDS enables comprehensive thought leadership, historical analysis, and insight into
If investors are losing faith in politics, fiscal policy and economic cycles, private equity is proving to be something in which they keep believing, as Elizabeth Pfeuti explains… Almost a third of investors responding to Preqin’s report into alternatives in the first half of 2019 said private equity had exceeded expectations
Growing demand among investors for private equity is coinciding with changing dynamics in how companies are raising capital, according to new research from The Thinking Ahead Institute (TAI), which highlights the growing importance of the private equity market to both companies and investors. Increasing demand from investors for private equity
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