Private equity companies are facing a deadline to spend cash they raised before the financial crisis or risk having to return unused funds to investors, a senior partner at the Nordic region’s largest buyout firm said.
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With fund-raising in China approaching record highs for the year, limited partners and general partners remain bullish on the country more so than nearly any other nation, with India coming in a close second.
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Buyouts are likely to be a vibrant area for private equity in coming months as venture capital continues to labor under an overhang of capital, according to panelists at the Dow Jones Private Equity Analyst Conference in New York held this week.
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A year after tackling fund terms in its Private Equity Principles, the Institutional Limited Partners Association is setting its sights on financial reporting. The trade organization, which represents institutional investors in private equity, in November plans to roll out a new set of financial reporting standards aimed at improving “uniformity and transparency in financial information provided to [...]

The Institutional Limited Partners Association, (“ILPA”), a not-for-profit organization committed to serving institutional investors of private equity, marked the one-year anniversary of the ILPA Private Equity Principles by announcing the Principles have received formal endorsement by 135 organizations globally. This endorsement comes from public and corporate pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, foundations, family offices [...]

The Keynesian “animal spirits” are stirring again among private equity dealmakers who scour the globe looking for companies to acquire using a mixture of investors’ funds and debt from banks.
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The buyout industry has been accused of having its “head in the sand” because it has yet to come to terms with an expected $100bn annual shortfall in funding caused by the demise of traditional pension schemes.
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Brazil is emerging as one of the most attractive destinations for private equity investors, thanks to the country’s vast market, rapid growth, and an increasingly affluent population, according to a study by Ernst & Young LLP.
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Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. That simple idea has won at least one Nobel Prize in economics; the economist James Tobin said the work that won him the prize was no more than an expansion of that principle.
It is also the guiding principle for the endowments that aim to safeguard wealth for [...]

Up to a quarter of funds in Australia’s $21 billion private equity industry could close as investors lose patience with weak returns at underperforming firms, buyout executives say.
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