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The Ex-Riverstone Exec Shaking Up The PE Fund Model

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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As First-Time Funds Struggle, PE Startups Try Fundless Model

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the flight-to-safety fundraising trend resulting in big, established private equity firms attracting massive capital inflows in a short time. New managers, unable to meet limited partners in person and sidelined due to LP risk aversion during the pandemic, are dealing with a far bleaker fundraising reality.  Last year was the worst […]

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Swinging The Direct Investment Pendulum Back To Investors

Weymouth, who founded Grafine Partners and acts as Managing Partner and Chair of the Investment Committee, has been in the investment world for 25 years, building up two substantial investment platforms; one at JP Morgan Private Bank, and one at Riverstone. As such, thinking of investments as solutions to capital has been ingrained in her […]

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