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Institutional investor interest in real estate debt of all forms has been surging in recent years, thanks in part to a view that it has attractive risk/return characteristics. In a recent interview, Privcap asked two real estate debt experts to better explain the investor appetite and risk characteristics of real estate debt and, critically,…

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…

Three experts in private equity value add discuss the incredible advances offered by automation – variously identified as artificial intelligence, machine learning and robotic process automation (RPA). Private equity firms are increasingly helping their portfolio companies automate tasks that were once manual, cutting expenses and improving accuracy in the process. The experts from General Atlantic,…

Marc Leder discusses why he left Lehman Brothers to co-found Boca Raton-based Sun Capital Partners.

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…

A corporate search for diverse energy assets is favoring renewable projects.

How Blue Wolf Capital Partners executed on a plan of sustainable value creation for ModernMD.

How one PE firm sees opportunity amidst turmoil in Venezuela.