Coller Capital’s Barometer is a unique snapshot of global trends in private equity – a twice-yearly overview of the plans and opinions of Limited Partners worldwide. This edition contains findings on: private market M&A activity expectations; AI adoption and investment appetite; investor interest in continuation vehicles…
With continuation vehicles supporting liquidity challenges for co-investors, are they here to stay? Find out more in Nuveen’s latest roundtable with Private Equity International.
While co-investing has been a feature of the private equity industry for many years, it is a relatively new but growing trend in the hedge fund industry. We believe that hedge fund co-investments are an important tool to increase the total return of portfolios, while also delivering limited correlation to traditional asset…
Successfully executing a co-investment strategy is relatively straightforward, but in no way is it easy to accomplish. Whereas direct investing involves the full range of private equity activities—from sourcing through exit planning, from firm strategy through all elements of executing value creation strategies—co-investing…
General partner-led, or GP-led, secondaries represent a new strategy within private equity, joining direct investments, co-investments, and fund commitments as an important way to gain differentiated exposure to the asset class.
When executed alongside proven sponsors in opportunities aligned with their areas of expertise, private equity co-investments remain an attractive source of expected investment returns and a highly efficient way for investors to gain targeted exposure to leveraged buyouts. Manulife IM reviews the co-investment market…
While private equity has been on pause since mid-2022, we believe valuations will fall, activity will rise—and that 2024 will present an attractive entry point.
The co-investment market’s size and diversity are key reasons why we think investors should make a conscious decision about the opportunity set, rather than passively overlooking it. While the co-investment market is opaque, even conservative estimates suggest deal flow is substantial. This paper explores further.
EMPEA’s 2021 report on global venture investment traces venture capital (VC) flows across Africa, Asia, CEE, Latin America and the Middle East. This year’s report includes new breakouts on cross-border co-investment to measure the scope of global collaboration during a time of record venture investment in global markets.
Global assets under management (AuM) in private equity and venture capital continue to grow despite the economic slowdown from the Covid-19 pandemic and a slight drop in 2020 fundraising. The rise of co-investments is another notable trend that reflects investors’ expansion into the PE space. This blog looks into the usage…
In this latest Investment Perspectives paper, the authors evaluate how co-investments perform over economic cycles and show that increasing exposure to private equity co-investments now, in anticipation of a post-COVID recovery following mass vaccination, should prove attractive.
This publication (co-authored by Swiss Sustainable Finance and translated by the CFA Institute Research Foundation) provides practical insights into different approaches of sustainable investments, complemented with case studies from different asset owners, provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of contemporary…