Private Equity

The private equity secondaries boom: when will it occur?

22 December 2009

Secondary market private equity transactions have not met expectations in 2009, according to Preqin with estimates of just $6 billion to November, compared with $20 billion in 2008. However estimates indicate pricing will improve in 2010 and as a result sellers should consider subdividing their portfolios and inviting a range of bids to take advantage of the selectivity which exists among secondary market buyers.

PE, venture revived by market rebound: Cambridge Associates

11 November 2009

For US private equity and venture capital managers, Q2 generated the best returns since the end of 2007, when listed markets began sliding, and for the first time since its introduction mark-to-market valuation methodology benefited managers, according to research from US Consultancy Cambridge Associates.

Endowment model endures despite alternatives pain: Cambridge

11 February 2009

As Harvard Management Company (HMC) begins shedding 25 per cent of its workforce after incurring a 22 per cent loss since the beginning of the financial year, its investment consult, US firm Cambridge Associates, says the ‘endowment model’ is not impaired.

More private equity funds abandoned

07 October 2009

Only $38 billion was raised in private equity worldwide in the third quarter of 2009, the lowest level since the fourth quarter of 2003, with the number of fund raisings abandoned more than tripling in a year, according to Preqin.

Three waves of pain

04 November 2008

Declining earnings multiples represent just the first wave in the new private equity cycle, according to Adveq Management AG, a big Swiss-based fund-of-funds manager.

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