Elizabeth Weymouth Grafine Partners When PEI wrote about Elizabeth Weymouth last year, it described her as the “ex-Riverstone exec shaking up the PE fund model”. Weymouth, who is founder and managing partner at Grafine, invests directly in new and emerging PE managers, as well as via one-off deals. In the past year, Weymouth and her […]
Grafine Partners, an alternative asset management firm that takes a patient and creative approach to investing private capital, today announced that Christine Winslow has joined as Managing Director. Ms. Winslow joins from pension fund asset manager PGGM, where she was Director of Private Equity. “Christine is a welcome addition to our firm,” said Elizabeth Weymouth, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]