Buyouts staff
The arrival of the pandemic has spurred digital transformation, accelerating trends already in motion, says Tariq Osman, partner and co-founder at Argand Partners.
In the magazine: How the M&A, fundraising and LP worlds are coping with the covid crisis; An 11-page special on investing in technology; Plus much more.
Argand Partners co-founder and partner Heather Faust discusses how diversity creates value, how to communicate a new firm's track record and more.
Over 100 fund managers and more than 60 institutional investors contributed to the Buyouts Emerging Manager Survey 2020 produced with Gen II Fund Services.
The deal is one of the largest on the market in the pandemic downturn, which has stopped most secondaries deal activity as buyers and sellers look for more clarity on private equity valuations.
Firms learned a lot valuing their portfolios in the unprecedented chaos of the first quarter of 2020. That’s given them some clarity on Q2, but there are still some major unknowns.
In the magazine: ESG is approaching a tipping point; Why GPs are obsessing over PIPEs; How Alaska reacted to covid; Plus much more.
The economic side of covid-19 has similarities with the global financial crisis, but secondaries now has a bigger toolkit at its disposal to support long-term growth.
Alumni of Secondaries Investor's annual grouping of outstanding professionals under 35 share lessons learned and how they've been affected by the covid-19 crisis.
Driven largely by massive hauls from the likes of Blackstone and Neuberger Berman, 2019 secondaries fundraising eclipsed that of 2018 and average fund size hit a historic high.