Joseph Weitemeyer
Sixty-eight percent of investors and 63 percent of fund managers agree that asset valuation is the largest challenge for return generation in 2019, according to Preqin. Competition for assets and exit environment round out the top three challenges fund managers see for this year.
U.S.-based buyout and mezzanine fundraising skyrocketed in the past two weeks, thanks to one fund in particular. Since the last issue of Buyouts, fundraising added $26.6 billion to its YTD total, which now stands at $113.5 billion. The 2019 YTD surpassed $100 billion three months sooner than it did in 2018. Most of that total […]
U.S.-based buyout and mezzanine firms enjoyed a boost in fundraising thanks to large pools over the past two weeks. Since the last issue of Buyouts, fundraising added $13 billion, bringing the year-to-date total to $86.9 billion, nearly $25 billion more than the comparable period in 2018. American Industrial Partners raised the most. The firm closed […]
Public Employee Retirement System of Idaho (PERSI) has received more than $16.4 million in distributions from its 2016 investments, most by way of large buyout funds, according to an analysis by Buyouts. That year was the pension’s largest commitment to PE on record. All told, PERSI in 2016 committed $275 million to seven PE funds: five […]
First-time managers launched 40 debut funds into the market in 2017, representing a peak for first-time fundraising, but that number declined to 27 last year, Buyouts Insider data shows. Nine debut funds launched in the first quarter of 2019.
After a strong finish in 2018, the M&A exit market started off 2019 with its slowest quarter in over two years. All told, sponsors in the first quarter of 2019 closed 144 deals for a combined value of $23.4 billion, according to Thomson Reuters. That was a steep decline from a strong fourth quarter in 2018, […]
Despite fewer new funds getting launched, the amount of capital raised by first-time funds has remained about the same. In fact, first timers raised more last year ($6.7 billion) than they did in 2017 ($6.1 billion). This year is off to a strong start, with $3.1 billion raised by debut funds in the first quarter, […]
Emerging managers continue to flourish in a strong fundraising market. Thirteen EMs raised $3.1 billion from March 27 through April 9, according to Buyouts data. One firm cracked the billion-dollar mark. Toronto-based Whitehorse Liquidity Partners outraised all firms with US$1.2 billion for its third secondaries fund. Last September, Whitehorse closed its second secondaries fund at […]
Here are the key statistics in private equity fundraising, deals and exits for the first quarter of 2019. Download the “Buyouts Insider Q1 2019 Highlights” slide show as a PowerPoint: Buyouts Insider Q1 2019 Highlights
Emerging managers are keeping up their pace in the strong fundraising environment that appears to be welcoming to newer shops. Seventeen emerging managers raised more than $2.4 billion from the time period of March 13 through March 26, according to Buyouts data. ATL Partners outraised all firms with $475 million for Fund II. The firm […]