Industry
Trouble ahead
Industry LPs reveal their sombre side, predicting that a quarter of all private equity fund managers will go out of business and a tenth of investors could default on capital calls. By Ashley Wassall
Caution ... is key
Director of private equity at SVG Advisers, Sam Robinson, speaks on LPs' decreased appetite for risk and the need to make vehicles more efficient in this economic climate. By Sam Robinson, SVG Advisers.
LP/GP relations - No more Mr Nice Guy?
There is a general feeling that all is not well in LP land, with fees increasingly becoming an area of concern and a swathe of defaults thought to be around the corner. AVCJ chairman emeritus Dan Schwartz discusses the issues facing institutional investors...
Latvia in focus
A grim macroeconomic outlook has dominated the headlines from the Baltics of late. Nordic unquote" invited Latvian Venture Capital Association chairman and BaltCap investment manager Astra Neimane to give her thoughts on private equity prospects in Latvia...
Regulating away from trouble
Francinia Protti-Alvarez talks to Ad van den Ouweland of Robeco about LP/GP relationships and the role that responsible investment principles can play in private equity's future