private equity

Unlisted assets have risen in popularity in recent times (as discussed in the first part of this series), in part due to their less volatile nature and the returns on...

Federation is a private equity fund that invests in growing businesses that meet a social and economic need in areas like renewables, childcare and health. The core of...

If you’ve never heard of billionaire investor, Stephen A Schwarzman, you’re not alone. Despite being one of the founders of Blackstone Group, worth over $20 billion,...

The real money with growth-stage companies is often made by investing when they are still private. As an extreme example, some investors turned a $5,000 investment...

Humans are drawn to simplicity. It's appealing when an investment has a good narrative that is easy to understand. The problem is they are likely to be appealing to...

Despite a 17 per cent drawdown in the wake of the GFC, Andrew McAuley the CIO at Credit Suisse, says it took just 12 months to for their portfolios to bounce back. Not...

Renewed market volatility has been unleashed again. This time in the wake of a single Sunday night tweet in early May. Trade talks between the US and China have broken...

A large part of investing success is psychological - the ability to override the human emotions of greed and fear in the face of market volatility. In 2018, we...

The ultimate aim of investing in private equity markets is to generate a return higher than what you would receive by investing in public markets. But while the...

Private markets used to be just a stepping-stone to public markets, where the really serious capital was available. However, as Frederick Pollock, MD of US-based...