Alignment of Interest

Investors list the main causes of friction with private equity funds, in exclusive research released ahead of PEI’s NEXUS event in Florida.

Institutional LPs are unimpressed by GPs chasing individual investors, according to an ILPA survey.

Growth in the retail space could come to the detriment of traditional LPs and their investment interests, says the Institutional Limited Partners Association.

GPs need to be transparent with LPs about the impacts of having GP-led deals in co-investment funds, Partners Capital's head of co-investments Adam Spence tells PEI.

Private markets investments will take 'twice as much effort' to generate returns similar to those seen over the past 15 years, says Texas Municipal Retirement System CIO Yup Kim.

A series of unfortunate events in Southeast Asian private equity have conspired with an uncertain macroeconomic environment to inspire greater circumspection around manager selection and deal protections.

As the issue of own capital at risk comes to the fore ahead of the UK October budget, Rami Cassis, chief executive of family-run office Parabellum Investments, argues GPs should be upping their skin in the game.

HarbourVest now quizzes GPs about their views on NAV financing as part of its due diligence, managing director Lydia Hao tells PEI.

Speaking at an event in Hong Kong on Wednesday, the firm's head of APAC private wealth said it is 'critical' that open-end funds are valued frequently enough to assist subscriptions and redemptions.

Smaller managers are under pressure to commit to their own funds as LPs seek stability in a volatile market.