Joe Marsh
In the third episode of our Commitment Issues podcast series, Joana Rocha Scaff of Neuberger Berman and Alexis Maskell of BC Partners discuss the state of the increasingly competitive private equity strategy.
Managers selling minority stakes in their businesses can have implications for LPs invested in or considering the relevant GPs' funds.
US managers are increasingly looking to apply their expertise in Europe as appetite for defense investment spreads in the region.
Stonehage Fleming and GreenBear Group want to see aging funds wound up as quickly as possible to avoid issues such as questions around valuations.
The appointment is part of a wider multi-asset expansion that includes TPG NewQuest's first Japan-based secondaries executive.
The €27bn retirement fund is more relaxed about investments in private equity than infrastructure in the US, says head of private capital and real assets Jeppe Starup.
European LPs are highly attuned to challenges in the North American private equity fundraising market.
The head of private equity primaries for the US firm’s External Investing Group talks about the implications of longer fundraises and why LPs are delaying commitments to GPs.
If private equity fundraising rebounds next year, as is widely expected, how can first-time GPs give themselves the best chance of success?
But it’s still a tough market for new GPs, given continued fierce competition for scarce investment capital.