Investment Allocations

Two-fifths of family offices are planning to increase their allocations to private equity, according to a report by UBS and Campden Wealth.

Worries over volatile geopolitics, including the tension surrounding North Korea, are making LPs act cautiously.

AESF VI will be nearly double the size of its predecessor, according to a document seen by sister publication Secondaries Investor.

The $1.9trn investor has tweaked its alternatives strategy amid growing competition in the Japanese private equity market.

The university’s investment management arm had private equity returns of 5.6% for the year ended 30 June, up from a 3.9% loss the previous year.

Despite a drop in co-investing deals in 2016 due to execution challenges, global family offices continue to prefer direct investments, according to the UBS Global Family Office Report.

The firm returned 3.4 times as much money back to its investors as it called from them in the first half of the year, according to its listed feeder fund’s results.

Norway’s giant Government Pension Fund Global is wrong to think it is too big and too late for PE.

Just over half of LPs have experienced greater transparency from fund managers since 2015, a new report claims.

The $140bn pension fund promoted a handful of existing staff members.