LPs
One in four LPs willing to trade lower performance for better ESG - survey
ESG-focused LPs "motivated to divest positions in funds where they perceive ESG efforts to be lacking"
British Patient Capital launches £600m life sciences programme
Programme will invest in later-stage life sciences funds targeting at least £250m
Over a third of LPs track GPs on social media - survey
Survey finds that 38% of LPs use social media to track GPs and a further 29% use social media as part of their due diligence on potential investments
Unquote Private Equity Podcast: Fundraising full steam ahead
With record amounts of capital raised in 2020 and a roaring start to 2021, it seems not even a pandemic could slow the momentum of PE fundraising
LP returns from PE at "record levels" – Coller Capital
Two thirds of LPs have now achieved overall net returns of between 11% and 15% from private equity
Schroders rebrands private assets under Schroders Capital
Private equity, private debt, real estate and infrastructure are all part of the platform
Altamar and CAM combine businesses
New group is named Altamar CAM Partners and has a presence in Europe, America and Asia
YielCo holds closes for PE and co-investment funds
YielCo Special Situations Europe II is targeting €300m; YielCo Defensive Investments targets €150m
Fundraising fortunes: prevailing LP preferences persist
Alessia Argentieri looks at the winning strategies, and gathers insight from placement specialists as to what the rest of 2021 has in store
LP Profile: PFR increasingly eyeing funds outside Poland
Polish LP has invested €75m in four private equity firms in recent months, including Apax Partners, PAI Partners and Avallon MBO
Essling founder sells business to private investors
Frank-Noël Vandenberghe exits the business he co-founded with Michele Mezzarobba, who left last year
European GPs get top ESG marks, but diversity remains sore point - survey
Only 23% of Aberdeen Standard Investments' GPs have clear diversity targets in their portfolio companies
Ardian buys LP interest in Bregal Freshstream
Freshstream I is a fund established in 2015 with €600m in commitments, and targets mid-market companies
Majority of LPs happy to commit without in-person meeting – survey
Cebile Capital survey finds that 51% of respondents expect to increase PE commitments in 2021
Q&A: 17Capital's Thomas Doyle
"We see no ceiling for the adoption of NAV-based financing as a standard tool for portfolio management"
LP Profile: IMCO
Managing director Craig Ferguson discusses accelerated deployment activity during the pandemic and plans to scale up the PE allocation by 2025
Pantheon promotes four to partner
Petra Bukovec is a member of Pantheon's secondaries team and is based in London
Flexstone promotes three to managing director
Caroline Gibert joined Flexstone in 2014, while David Marcus and Zélie Saint-Zéby joined in 2011
Cambridge Associates hires Amatulli
Amatulli joins from Younited Credit, where she was responsible for Italian Capital Markets
29% of LPs have decreased interest in emerging managers – survey
Placement agent Eaton Partners’ latest LP Pulse Survey collected responses from 61 LPs globally
Ontario Teachers' hires Nick Jansa from Deutsche Bank
Jansa joins from Deutsche Bank, where he spent more than 24 years
Unquote Private Equity Podcast: UK & Ireland 2020 Review
Early figures highlight how a 2008-style meltdown was averted in 2020, both in terms of deal-doing and fundraising
Video: arduous road for emerging managers, says British Patient Capital's Connatty
Ian Connatty, head of funds at British Patient Capital, updates Denise Ko Genovese on the investments made by the LP in 2020
Unquote Private Equity Podcast: LP perspectives
Elias Korosis from Hermes GPE joins the Podcast to discuss co-investments, fund financing and the outlook for 2021
