This week, Paul Bryant turns the spotlight on the private equity secondary market to look at how growth is being driven by a number of factors including ’manager consolidation’, greater demand for liquidity, and a rise in GP-led transactions. There’s also a chance to replay the recent Private Equity Wire/FIS webinar

In this week’s newsletter, James Williams looks at the issue of transparency between private equity GPs and their LPs. And with the global economy slowing, it’s an issue that’s sure to become more pertinent as investors consider how they would manage liquidity in the portfolios in the event of a

In this week’s newsletter, FPE Capital Managing partner David Barbour outlines the firm’s unique relationship with Stonehage Fleming and the resulting benefits for the business. In this insightful Q&A, Barbour also explains the firm’s investment philosophy and assesses growth capital opportunities in the UK. Paul Bryant meanwhile, examines the seemingly

Attention all those currently in fundraising mode: this week’s newsletter has news of an upcoming webinar on 18 September focusing on industry best practices. Joining the discussion will be a selection of established and emerging managers including: Osman Qureshi, Managing Partner & Co-Founder First Alpha Energy Capital; Tatyana Kratunova, Product

In this week’s newsletter, James Williams looks at a new discretionary co-investment platform from Astarte Capital Partners which is aiming to help facilitate investor allocations to European ‘real assets’ including natural resources, transportation and specialist real estate. And following the recent acquisition of Estera by Inflexion Private Equity, Inflexion partner

This week’s newsletter looks at two new research reports, one examining how a series of ‘mega deals’ have propelled the value of fintech M&A transactions to record levels in the first six months of the year, and the other revealing decade high private equity fundraising levels in Central and Eastern

In this week’s newsletter there’s a look at the results of a new survey by due diligence specialist Corgentum Consulting suggesting that social media analysis is playing an increasingly important role in investment decisions made by private equity and hedge fund investors. In deal news BlackRock’s Long Term Private Capital

In this week’s newsletter, we profile RFA and look at how the company has grown from relatively humble beginnings three decades ago to become one of the biggest cloud providers in the alternative investment sector with a particular focus on hedge funds and private equity funds.  In deal news this

In this week’s newsletter, David Rees, Partner and Global Co-Head of Asset Management at AMP Capital discusses the discipline of bringing PE rigour to active management in the infrastructure space, and why the firm is hiring technologists to effect positive change.  Keeping with the technology theme, US Capital Global Securities