Amy Carroll
An understanding that responsible investing is essential to risk mitigation and value creation means ESG is playing a greater role in manager selection.
Despite a lack of infrastructure, emerging managers are demonstrating their commitment to sustainability and diversity.
European private equity has a long history of outperformance in challenging environments. Despite the current geopolitical and macroeconomic tumult, LPs should be prepared to maintain the momentum of their investment programmes.
With labour markets tightening, effective recruitment and retention strategies are becoming increasingly critical for portfolio company growth.
As private equity faces a perfect storm of macroeconomic and geopolitical turbulence, it is time for the asset class to prove its value-creation credentials.
A regulatory crackdown, ongoing pandemic disruption and an uncertain macroeconomic environment has some investors rethinking their approach to China, write Alex Lynn and Amy Carroll.
Fund sizes ballooned across the board last year, averaging $530m, nearly a 50% increase in merely five years, according to PEI data.
Private equity has been slow to embrace the use of artificial intelligence, but data is dominant and those that fail to leverage its power may be left behind.
Good environmental, social and corporate governance is essential, but the operating models to support those practices still have room to mature.
A high-profile agreement on standardised metrics marks an important first step, but LPs will soon be wanting more.