Last year was a bumper year for private equity fundraising, and there is little indication that the flow of money into the asset class will wane any time soon, FN's sister publication Private Equity News reports.

Some 48% of European investors plan to put more money into private equity this year, compared with 2% who plan to trim their allocation, according to a survey published in December by Coller Capital. US investors are slightly less enthusiastic about the asset class but the figures still stand at 26% and 5% respectively.