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Investing for Impact: Affordable Housing
PGIM Real Estate on the opportunity to invest well – and do good – at the same time
January 16, 2020More
Agribusiness Investors See a Farm Upswing in Coming Years
Farmland and agribusinesses generally will enjoy multiple tailwinds in the coming market cycle and should be of interest to long-term investors.
January 13, 2020More
How ESG Improves Portfolio Companies
Veterans of environmental, social and governance value-add in private equity discuss best practices and share notes. Featuring experts from TPG, First Reserve and RSM.
January 13, 2020More
Behavioral Change for Good Initiative: An Overview
Funder Marc Leder of Sun Capital gives an overview of a research initiative that explores ways for people to improve their lives. Learn more here .
December 17, 2019More
Carefully Calculating the Waterfall
Part of the Gen II Fund Services thought-leadership series, Unlocking the Power of Private Equity Data.
Private equity fund economics are complicated – just ask the people whose job it is to calculate who gets paid how much and when. The distribution waterfall determines how profits are shared among GPs and LPs, and…
December 11, 2019More
Private Equity: What’s in it for the Doctors?
Private equity firms increasingly are investing in healthcare businesses, many of them physician practices – with doctors at the core of operations. How should doctors assess the economics of such deals? What will be the impact on care? What questions should they ask of financial partners who propose to invest in or acquire these practices?…
November 8, 2019More
Is Mega-Private Equity Becoming a Public Proxy?
Andrea Auerbach, Global Head of Private Investments for Cambridge Associates, discusses the current state of the private equity market, including the surge in distributions back to LPs, and the performance of the largest private equity funds, which is beginning to mirror the average performance of the stock market. Interviewed by David Snow, CEO of Privcap…
June 14, 2019More
Crazy Like a Fox? Time to Invest in Venezuela
How one PE firm sees opportunity amidst turmoil in Venezuela.
June 5, 2017More
On Demand Webinar: PE Value-Add Through Cybersecurity
An expert conversation about how GPs can protect and add value via data security
As more than a few private equity investors have learned, missing cybersecurity weaknesses in portfolio companies can lead to catastrophic losses. But just as importantly, making improvements to a company’s cybersecurity infrastructure can position it for a more lucrative exit.
This…
January 7, 2020More
Dealmaker: New Frontiers in Financial Services
Privcap assembled a group of private equity experts for an in-depth conversation about the investment opportunity in financial services.
November 18, 2019More
Retail Real Estate: Why I’m Pulling Out
A major investor in US retail property, real estate investment firm Taurus, is selling its portfolio and ceasing new investments. Co-founder of Taurus, Peter Merrigan, spoke with Privcap about lack of demand for many malls, the Amazon effect, the rise of logistics properties, and why he’s still bullish about malls in emerging markets.
November 11, 2019More
Disrupted Healthcare: Is Your Business a Netflix or a Blockbuster?
Two healthcare business experts from RSM discuss important disruption trends that will leave many legacy companies in the same position that Blockbuster’s video-rental business found itself as Netflix grew in popularity. Patients increasingly expect the same types of experiences in healthcare that they receive in consumer businesses. Please download the RSM healthcare M&A e-book here
November 4, 2019More
The Best Energy Play: Permian Infrastructure
And why the Permian should be thought of as its own country, according to the former head of energy at Trammell Crow.
October 22, 2019More
The Rise of Operational Due Diligence
Institutional investors increasingly are focused not only on the returns generated by private equity managers, but on the soundness of the firm’s infrastructure. With each passing day, it seems that the legal, regulatory and competitive environment in which private capital firms do business becomes more complex, thereby elevating the risks faced even by firms…
July 22, 2019MoreFundraising: Why Asian Capital Is Surging
The CEO of strategic fundraising adviser MVision discusses the rise of large limited partners in Asia.
March 25, 2019MoreDoes Trump’s Wall Have a Silver Lining?
How investment opportunities in Mexico are presenting themselves in the Trump era.
May 11, 2017More
