Strategy

GPs are venturing into new sub-sectors as they diversify and chase higher returns. But do they have the skillsets to do so successfully?

In recent years there has been a surge in subordinated strategies. We examine what’s driving demand and how this might pan out in 2021.

Investors show little appetite for first-time managers and GP stakes activity is heating up.

LPs have adapted well to a virtual world but are wary of backing new manager relationships.

There’s a growing desire among infra LPs to seek co-investment opportunities but execution challenges remain

Blackstone's global head of private equity talks about the firm's long-hold strategy. Blackstone raised $8.2bn for its second offering, 70% more than the strategy’s 2016-vintage debut fund.

Kempen Capital Management’s director, private markets, Marvin de Jong, warns that the covid-19 crisis is not a re-run of 2008.

UK regulatory price controls threaten companies’ ability to secure financing, argue Tim Briggs and Silke Goldberg, partners at Herbert Smith Freehill.

Brookfield and Macquarie have raised billions in the past two years for their new super-core funds. But are these strategies really different from core vehicles or just a new form of labelling?

The pandemic has laid bare the inadequacies of risk terminology in infrastructure. Investors and managers must look beyond labels to weather this storm.