The US represents the largest private equity market in the world. Despite the growth of the industry in Asia-Pacific and developing regions, the industry’s traditional home has remained the largest market in the world for private equity deals and is home to large numbers of institutional investors and fund managers alike. This report [...]
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In a much-changed global economic environment, measuring the performance of private equity relative to other investment classes is more important than ever. Preqin has created the first ever private equity index covering the entire industry – the Preqin Private Equity Quarterly Index (PrEQIn). This research report reveals the PrEQIn Index performance of each [...] Posted on April 2nd, 2012
AFG would find it very helpful if ESMA highlighted in its workings that the criteria it proposes to define an AIF have to be looked at jointly: it is not because one of them is fulfilled that the structure under consideration can necessarily be defined as an AIF. But, where all criterias defining [...] Posted on March 28th, 2012
Institutional investors are increasingly seeking new ways to extract value from their private equity portfolios and a growing number are setting aside capital for private equity co-investments. This report draws on the results of detailed interviews conducted with over 100 institutional investors from around the world with an interest in co-investment, examining their [...] Posted on March 26th, 2012
In order to understand the role of private equity firms in the restructuring of financially distressed firms, we examine the private equity ownership of 2,156 firms which obtained leveraged loan financing between 1997 and 2010. The economic downturn beginning in 2007 is associated with a marked increase in defaults of these highly leveraged [...] 22 pages
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