Private Equity & Private Capital News

The Los Angeles City Employees’ Retirement System (LACERS), which manages $23.1 billion in assets, has committed up to $110 million to various private equity funds, according to a report by Pensions & Investments citing officials at the pension fund.

As liquidity constraints put pressure on the private equity industry, the secondaries market is expected to grow substantially over the next twelve months, with fundraising and deal flow set to expand, according to Investec’s latest Secondaries Report, Charting a Course for Further Growth.

MetLife Investment Management (MIM), the institutional asset management business of MetLife, has formed a new $1.2bn private equity fund of funds, significantly boosting the amount of private capital the insurer manages for outside investors.

Insolvenzzahlen steigen – wie finden Unternehmen zurück auf den Wachstumspfad? Jahrelang sanken die Insolvenzzahlen in Deutschland kontinuierlich. Trotz der Coronapandemie mit massiven wirtschaftlichen Einschränkungen blieb die Zahl der Insolvenzen niedrig – doch seit 2022 steigen sie wieder deutlich an. Unternehmen kämpfen mit den Folgen der Pandemie, hohen Energiekosten, steigenden Zinsen und Inflationsdruck. Sanierungsexperten und alternative […]

Private equity firms are extracting lavish dividends from their portfolio companies while waiting for the right time to sell. One recent example of these dividend recaps is Best Secret, owned by Permira.

Paramount, owner of Paramount Pictures movie and television studios, the CBS television network and CBS News and a takeover target of private equity firm Apollo Global, is to merge with Skydance Media, according to a report by CBS News.

We’re still waiting for the long-anticipated PE exit recovery, but deal advisers tell me GPs are busy cooking up plans to offload their fully baked assets as pressure mounts to return capital to LPs. Market chatter at the start of the year indicated the pipeline of exits was filling up, there were more assets up […]

Cinven steigt bei Fressnapf ein. Umgekehrt übernimmt der Heimtierbedarf-Spezialist von dem PE-Haus dessen Anteile am italienischen Händler Arcaplanet. Ihr Ziel: den europäischen Markt aufmischen.

Private-Equity-Anbieter gewinnen Privatinvestoren als neue Kundengruppe. KKR-Managerin Alisa Wood nennt exklusiv bei The Market ein Ziel für das Jahr 2029 von 30 bis 50% Privatanlegeranteil am Fundraising. Rivale PGIM strebt 30% für 2032 an. Die Nachfrage aus der Schweiz ist stark.