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By Katey Bogue, Head of Private Fund Solutions, Nasdaq Private Fund Solutions – As the size and importance of private fund portfolios continue to scale rapidly for LPs, so too do the complexities of raising and reporting for GPs. There are increasing volumes of portfolio data to harness, more demands from investors to address, and more operational risks to navigate.
SPECIAL REPORT
It’s a golden age for private equity firms, amid soaring valuations and a frenzy of takeover deals over the past year.
That same pace of growth and success is also acting as a powerful agent of change for the industry in how it views and uses technology.
For Rich Itri, SVP, Professional Service, at ECI, a provider of managed IT services, cybersecurity and business transformation solutions, it’s a trend that is long overdue.
While other areas of financial services have eagerly adopted new systems to keep pace with their competitors, private equity firms have traditionally taken a different approach.
“It’s
SPECIAL REPORT
By Robin Pagnamenta – They are used to big deals, quick turnarounds – and bumper pay days. But private equity executives have, in the past, sometimes been slower to embrace something else: cutting edge technology which rules the roost in many other areas of the financial services industry.
EQUALITY
By Sushma Kaushik, Partner at Aavishkaar Capital – Globally, Gender Lens Investing (or GLI) is gaining interest as more investors and financial institutions are adopting this as part of their investment strategy. Gender Lens Investing is very simply, an investment strategy that factors in gender analysis to advance equality and redress the gender imbalance within businesses.
Of 7.87 billion people in the world, ~50 per cent are women, yet their contribution to the economy is low, especially in emerging economies. In India women form 24 per cent of the work force and contribute a mere 18 per cent to the
ESG
Tikehau Capital, a global alternative asset management group, today is aimingto manage at least EUR5 billion of AUM, dedicated exclusively to the fight against climate change, by 2025.
DEALS
Ropes & Gray has advised Acceleron in its USD11.5 billion sale to Merck & Co. This is one of Merck’s biggest acquisitions and diversifies the pharmaceutical company’s pipeline by adding Acceleron’s drugs to target rare diseases. The transaction was announced on 30 September.
PERFORMANCE
A new metric looking at the performance of private equity and venture capital funds has revealed a strong industry internal rate of return (IRR) of 19.6 per cent and Total Value to Paid In multiple (TVPI) of 1.9x for funds that started investing over the last decade.
FUNDRAISING
PSG, a growth equity firm partnering with middle-market software and technology-enabled services companies, has closed PSG V, its fifth US flagship fund, at its hard cap with USD4.5 billion in third-party limited partner commitments.
PARTNER FEATURE
Stephen Kenny (pictured) and Daniel Edgson from Blick Rothenberg’s Financial Services team take a look at the Reporting Fund Regime and provides guidance on what UK investors and individuals need to be aware of.
INVESTMENT
High-net-worth investors across Europe, Asia, and South America have placed faith in private markets specialists over the last 18 months, as illiquid investment opportunities were seen as a safer bet during the uncertainty of Covid-19.
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