Managers
A dramatic increase in private credit investments by life insurers is creating systemic risk for investors, according to a report by the Financial Times quoting concerns aired by private equity investor J Christopher Flowers, the founder of JC Flowers & Co.
With the higher cost of financing deals making traditional investment exit routes more difficult and the UK IPO market in a slump, UK private equity managers are increasingly turning to continuation funds as they look to offload assets.
Global private investment firm KKR is expanding its operations in India with the opening of a new office in Gurugram, which the firm expects to be home to some 150 new staff by early 2024.
Former Ardian executives Vincent Gombault and Ingmar Vallano have teamed up with David Enriquez of New York City Retirement Systems and Harry van der Elst, a former Data Scientist at Coller Capital, to launch Clipway, a new global private equity secondaries firm.
Carlyle is pivoting away from bets on US consumer, media, and retail companies and will instead focus on other core sectors including financial services, healthcare, and technology, according to a report by Reuters.
Goldman Sachs Asset Management is partnering with the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System to launch a new separately managed account co-investment programme in private credit transactions across the Asia Pacific region.
European VCs invested over €96bn in almost 27,000 European companies and delivered 23% net annual returns over the last ten years, according to a new Invest Europe report.
The majority (95%) of UK dealmakers expect inflation to hit the 2% target set by the Bank of England, with an optimistic minority expecting it to happen within the next year and a more realistic majority predicting a two-year timescale, according to CIL’s Investment 360 Index.
Private credit lender Blue Owl Capital is planning to expand its presence in the Middle East with the opening of a new office in Abu Dhabi staffed by a team focused on capital raising, according to a report by Bloomberg.
The $1.5tn global private credit market will double to $3tn within the next five years, with most of the increase coming from bank balance sheets, according to a report by Bloomberg, citing Ares Management boss Mike Arougheti.
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