Buyouts’ Off-duty provides a snapshot of top investors, including a few details about what they do when not chasing deals. Grafine, which is raising a debut fund, aims to shake up the private equity model by focusing on the “Great Resignation,” a trend that is seeing multiple veteran GPs leave well-established firms to start their […]
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Imagine a sophisticated limited partner in the early 1980s and 90s looking for that sought-after edge. As they explore alternative investment strategies, they discover some fascinating startups in the private equity space with, at the time, limited brand recognition. Names like KKR, Blackstone, Carlyle, Silver Lake, TPG and others. They jump in, intrigued to work […]
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LP appetite for private equity – and in particular North American private equity – appears insatiable. In developments few would have predicted at the start of the pandemic, fundraising has not just continued relatively uninterrupted; it has smashed records. In the first half of 2021, North American GPs raised an aggregate $297 billion, the highest […]
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There’s a quiet revolution happening among sophisticated institutional investors and large pools of capital that could eventually up-end one corner of the private equity universe. A growing number of LPs are starting to turn away from allocating to the largest managers and towards experienced dealmakers who are starting their own shops – many of whom […]
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The firm’s founder and chief executive Elizabeth Weymouth spent 10 years as a partner at Riverstone Holdings after coming from JPMorgan where she oversaw $80 billion of client assets. The New York-headquartered firm boasts a set of senior alumni from Goldman Sachs, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, McKinsey and Co., and Mercer Investments, among other brand-name […]
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