private equity

COVID’s cruelling of global markets combined with historically low interest rates and flat bond yields has elevated the appeal of private equity. Free from the...

In a recent webinar hosted by Grosvenor Capital Management for the Right Issue Offer in the Pengana Private Equity Trust, the team provided insight into why (and how)...

Alternative investments continue to be prominent in the portfolios of some of the world’s most sophisticated investors, including sovereign wealth funds, endowments...

Russel Pillemer's Pengana Capital has announced a 1-for-3 rights issue, or capital raising, for its existing private equity listed investment trust (LIT), called the...

Cameron Brownjohn, CEO of private equity firm Federation Asset Management, describes their three step selection criteria for investments as ‘fierce’. In their first...

Private equity is an asset class that can deliver attractive returns without the volatility found in the listed equity market. Research from one of Australia’s leading...

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...

Did you know that 98% of all companies in Europe and the US with revenues in excess of $10 million are not listed? Not only that, but the number of listed companies...

The Emerging Companies Fund, under joint management by CVC and Evans Dixon, now gives wholesale investors access to the kind of early-stage investment opportunities...

Private equity can provide investors with uncorrelated and compelling returns and diversification benefits. This has clearly been noticed by the highly successful...

Producing outsized returns requires doing something differently to other investors. One way of achieving this is by investing in companies before they list on the ASX...