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While U.S.-based fundraising continues to soar from 2018 to 2019, fewer emerging buyout and venture capital managers are contributing to the frenzy, according to the Emerging Manager Survey, published by Buyouts Insider in partnership with Gen II Fund Services, LLC. Fifty-eight percent of fund managers said they are in market with a fund, a strong […]

The number of months spent to raise a fund has increased over the past year for emerging managers, according to the Emerging Manager Report. The average and median number of months spent fundraising by emerging managers continues to float around 10, but the upper quartile show some managers needing 22 months to raise their fund.

It has been a stellar year for U.S.-based buyout and mezzanine fundraising, which added another $7 billion to its year-to-date total since the last issue of Buyouts. Firms this year have now amassed $245.6 billion, which eclipses 2018’s year-end total, with three full months of fundraising still to go. A big reason for this year’s […]

Most deal activity during June 1 through Aug. 31 has previously occurred in the high technology sector, according to Thomson One, but real estate had a higher value in 2019. That marks the second time over the past five years real estate did so.

U.S.-based buyout and mezzanine fundraising wasted no time in shaking off the summer rust. Since the last issue of Buyouts, fundraising added $10.8 billion to its year-to-date total, which is now at $238.6 billion— more than $100 million more than this time last year. Vista Equity led the charge, adding another $4.6 billion to its […]

Summer is a relatively quiet time for deals, but in 2019 the total value of deals from June 1 through Aug. 31 failed to eclipse the previous year for the first time since 2015, according to Thomson One. Though 2018 was a substantially high year, 2019 brought in the lowest recorded deal value of the […]

The summer slowdown has finally caught up to U.S.-based buyout and mezzanine fundraising. Since the last issue of Buyouts, fundraising added only $1.8 billion to its year-to-date total, which is now at $227.8 billion. 2019 still outpaces 2018 by a far margin. EW Healthcare outraised all firms, closing its second growth equity fund at $745 […]

Investor appetite for emerging managers seems to be growing. Both the average and median for all investors increased from 2018 to 2019, according to the Emerging Manager Survey, published by Buyouts Insider in partnership with Gen II Fund Services. Small investors, those that commit less than $100 million per year to private equity and venture […]

The number of investors willing to make an anchor commitment increased, from 64 percent in 2018 to 76 percent in 2019, according to the Emerging Manager Survey. What hasn’t changed is what they expect in return: 78 percent of investors said they would seek discounted management fees for an anchor commitment.  

The number of worldwide private equity funds to hit the market has been increasing over time, and has almost reached 4,000 funds at the start of Q3 2019, according to Preqin’s Quarterly Update: Private Equity & Venture Capital Q2 2019. North America and Asia are the most attractive fundraising markets, with more than 1,500 funds […]