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What’s the key to successful co-investing?

In this week’s newsletter, Liz Pfeuti provides a second instalment on the mechanics of co-investing, in which she explains how to avoid some of the common pitfalls. One key aspect, as Liz touches on, is to define all the rules and governance issues at the pre-deal stage.  On the fundraising

Deal or co-deal?

In this week’s newsletter, Elizabeth Pfeuti reports on the continued growth in co-investment activity. As Pfeuti reports, Harbourvest Partners has increased its annual co-investment commitments from USD200 million a decade ago to USD2-3 billion today. The article looks at the various upsides to this ever increasingly popular allocation method, which

Close calls

In this week’s newsletter, we feature updates on the latest fund closes, starting with RA Capital Management, who have raised just over USD300 million for their inaugural VC Fund, the RA Capital Nexus Fund. This will enable RA Capital to take larger positions in high-conviction investments with their limited partners.

What’s up with Europe’s IPO market?

In this week’s newsletter, Paul Bryant reports on some of the reasons behind a drop in Europe’s IPO market, which has seen deal values fall from EUR26 billion in 2015 to EUR8 billion in 2018.  A new report by eVestment finds that real assets under administration have grown 20 per

Emerging managers discuss key trends shaping Europe’s mid-market space

This week’s newsletter brings news of Private Equity Wire’s European Mid-Market Summit – Inside the mind of the modern mid-market/emerging PE manager – which was held at the Reform Club in Pall Mall, London on Tuesday, 26 June and provided 80 or so attendees with the opportunity to meet and

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Generalist funds trail sector-specialists in PE performance stakes

This week, research by Cambridge Associates finds that sector-specialist PE funds have accrued almost a 5 per cent higher internal rate of return than generalist funds, with healthcare funds leading the pack.  Specialism applies equally to the highly competitive PE secondaries arena, within which one of its leading players, Adams

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Advent’s latest fund raise surpasses expectations

Welcome to the first edition of the new weekly Private Equity Wire newsletter. This week we feature the first contribution from reporter Elizabeth Pfeuti on Europe’s second largest pension investor PGGM and why it is looking to allocate EUR500 million to impact-focused private equity funds.  Advent, one of the industry’s leading

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Read all about it! The new weekly Private Equity Wire newsletter

Our daily Private Equity Wire newsletter is changing to a weekly format and, from 12 May, 2019, will be published and distributed via email to registered readers on Wednesday mornings.  Our new offering will include a short editorial from the Private Equity Wire editor on the activities in the sector from the previous

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