Private Equity
BlackRock’s Larry Fink hails democracy for private assets. But what will it mean for fees?
Cutting the charges on opaque funds might not be a good thing for managers
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AlixPartners backs FN sister title’s Twenty Trailblazing Women
Consulting firm sponsors PEN’s list of senior women in the sector for the second year running
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Why Blackstone is talking about LTAFs
Catch up on the top news in wealth management this week
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Can Carlyle’s Wand revive its European buyout team?
A London-based tech veteran is tasked with turning around the fortunes of the private equity giant’s European buyout team.
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Shackleton sets deadline for first round bids as wealth manager’s sale talks continue
‘Britain’s wealth manager’ is looking for up to £600m for the business
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Ex-Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman to join General Atlantic as senior adviser
The US private equity firm has made preparations for an IPO
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Why this Goldman Sachs banker jumped to private credit
‘The private credit industry has been growing enormously. That’s a fact,’ Luke Gillam tells FN
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Blackstone poaches Goldman Sachs leveraged finance head Dominic Ashcroft
Private markets firms continue to hunt top banking talent
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Accounting firm spurns private equity as rare IPO tests UK market appetite
MHA said there have been few successful IPOs in its sector. It’s hoping to change that
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‘It’s do or die time’: How Ascot Lloyd 2.0 will revamp the £11bn wealth manager
A plan to revitalise Ascot Lloyd shows it is ‘broken from top to bottom’, outsiders say, but senior staff argue the overhaul is setting the firm up for growth
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Private equity bought up UK wealth. Now it needs CEOs
Buyout firms are struggling to come to terms with leadership transition as the executives behind their investments move on
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Citigroup’s top private equity dealmaker Diamandakis to depart
The US bank is aiming to catch rivals in advising private equity firms
Meet Aurea: The little-known private equity owner of The Body Shop
After a frenzied 11-week bidding process, Aurea took control of a major global retail chain. Now its co-founders open up about their plans for The Body Shop and their grander ambition of becoming a multi-billion-dollar asset manager
In pictures: Financial News and Private Equity News networking evening
A&O Shearman managing partner Hervé Ekué spoke to Financial News and Private Equity News editor in chief Shruti Tripathi Chopra at the 18 March event
CVC hires ex-KKR dealmaker
Jean-Pierre Saad will join the European buyout giant to focus on technology deals, according to people familiar with the matter
Deutsche Bank strikes private credit deal with DWS
German lender eyes origination and investment opportunities for DWS’ clients
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Carlyle’s Acrotec and ADB Safegate exits pushed back
Private equity is currently sitting on an estimated $3.6tn of unrealised value across 29,000 unsold companies
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JPMorgan hires ex-Citigroup veteran Abularach to lead European infrastructure
The Wall Street bank has bolstered its coverage of private equity firms
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Bridgepoint ramps up fundraising ambitions as flagship launch beckons
Fundraising blitz comes after the firm raised €7.8bn in 2024
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LCM boss warns private credit firms: Don’t ‘screw it’ for everyone else
Paul Burdell fears ‘aggressive leverage’ and says the industry has not yet been ‘truly tested’
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