Investment Allocations

A potential goldmine of private equity opportunity beckons in a market where dealflow has been tougher than expected.

The newly-formed Helical Capital Partners will target around $300m for its Global Value Fund 2018 SA, which will be managed by Partners Group.

The deal represents another step in Aberdeen Standard's strategy to be an end-to-end provider of fund finance.

Investment portfolios will be less segmented.

The country’s four AP funds are one step closer to gaining more flexibility when investing in private markets.

The $4.2bn pension fund wants to grow its private asset bucket to 27% of its total portfolio.

The retirement plan also increased its exposure to private infrastructure by 1%, while targets for real estate equity and natural resources investments stayed the same.

More than one in three of respondents plan to increase their allocation to emerging markets as a proportion of their total portfolio, up from 29 percent last year.

Almost 40% of LPs have already invested or will consider investing in funds that take stakes in GPs, according to Coller Capital’s latest Global Private Equity Barometer.

The programme – which will comprise two funds and launch in the first half of next year – could drive the fund's annual PE deployment to $13bn.