Adam Le
Adam Le is Senior Editor, EMEA, for PEI Group's private equity publications, overseeing the flow of global news and analysis for Private Equity International and Secondaries Investor. Based in London, Adam works closely with private equity-focused colleagues across PEI's offices in New York, London and Hong Kong. Prior to PEI, his roles included reporting on finance and technology for Bloomberg Japan.
Direct investing is not a strategy suitable for all institutional investors, according to David Enriquez, co-head of private equity at New York City Employees' Retirement System.
Per Olofsson, head of alternatives at the Swedish pension fund, talks about its battle to get fully invested.
The Canadian pension has teamed with Generation Investment Management and will target companies with strong ESG attributes.
Itconic had no financial data when Carlyle took charge. But its turnaround was enough to bag the mega-firm the lower mid-market/small cap award in EMEA.
The firm carved out Visteon's failing interiors unit to make Reydel Automotive and take the EMEA upper mid-market award.
European pensions that have invested heavily through co-investments will be in for a rude awakening if a downturn hits, according to the Swedish pension's head of alternatives.
The industry body, which represents $2trn in PE assets, plans to publish an update to its private equity principles as early as this year.
The limited partner's senior investment officer, John Bradley, discusses how secondaries fits into the pension’s PE portfolio.
More than one secondaries fund held a final close each month on average since we last compiled our ranking of the biggest 30 managers.
Growth in deal volume and a wave of groundbreaking GP-led transactions show secondaries is no longer a niche strategy.