Private Equity
What’s the biggest risk facing private equity? Buyout bosses share their thoughts
Concerns include AI threats to the software market and private equity’s expansion into wealth
Why Brookfield is sending its investments to private school
The asset management giant has made an $825m investment into Spring Education Group, according to people familiar with the matter
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Meet the newest member of private equity’s investment committee: Artificial intelligence
Senior industry figures predict that AI agents will have voting rights on dealmaking decisions
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Private equity parties like it is 1999
Nostalgia for more certain times hangs over this week’s SuperReturn summit in Berlin
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Call in the consultants: Inside SJP’s stunning turnaround
Catch up on the top news in wealth management this week
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Carlyle lawyer jumps to investment side as managing director
Catch up on this week’s top legal news
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Franklin Templeton ups private markets push with Apera buy
US asset manager says acquisition of European private credit firm will boost alternative credit assets to almost $90bn
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Inflexion promotes its largest ever cohort
The European mid-market private equity firm has made 30 appointments across its teams in the year-to-date
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Private credit is soaring. Meet the people behind the boom
The European market has seen enormous growth since the financial crisis. Financial News’s sister title Private Equity News is recognising the leaders who have shaped its development
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Private equity has hit an ‘unwanted milestone’
Bain & Company said the lack of firms raising more than $5bn underlines a drop both in the average fund size and the number of funds closing
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Meet the Twenty Most Influential in Private Credit
The inaugural list from FN’s sister title PEN recognises the people behind the growth of the sector in Europe
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Why private equity’s wealth management push is stalling
Regulatory headwinds, ballooning debt burdens and sky-high valuations are giving buyers pause for thought
Liquidity looms large as buyout bosses prepare for summer summit
Buyers are proactively engaging sellers to unlock deals, with senior figures expecting some of those conversations to ramp up in Berlin next week
L&G acquires real estate group Proprium to fuel private markets push
Deal is the latest for the UK asset manager amid plan to grow private markets assets to £85bn
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Standard Chartered looks to hire 25 sponsors dealmakers in investment bank push
The UK lender has outlined plans to bolster returns from financial institutions
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Ares opens Milan office in wealth push
FN revealed that the $546bn alternatives manager was mulling a move to Italy’s financial capital last year
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CVC co-founder eyes move to Milan
Relocation for the private equity tycoon would mark one of the highest-profile departures yet from the UK to a more tax-friendly jurisdiction
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Trump tariffs ice deals, but banks push more into private equity
New levies on US imports have frozen M&A activity, but financial sponsor bankers tell Financial News that they’re bolstering their teams regardless
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