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Private equity

  • Thursday, 10 July, 2025
    Legal & General Group PLC
    L&G agrees up to $20bn private credit partnership with Blackstone

    Deal is latest example of European insurance and pension groups tapping fast-growing asset class

    2 hours ago
    L&G chief executive António Simões and the L&G umbrella logo
  • Thursday, 10 July, 2025
    Due Diligence
    The UK’s Apollo-backed insurance juggernaut Premium content

    Plus, Big Pharma faces up to a patent cliff and Jane Street’s troubles in India

    Apollo signage in office
  • Thursday, 10 July, 2025
    Insurance
    An Apollo-backed insurer is coming for the UK’s pensions

    Retirement assets unlocked private equity group’s growth. Its minority-owned insurer Athora is adapting the model for the UK

    Marc Rowan and Mike Wells with Apollo and Athora logos and chart with Euro notes in background
  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    Travel & leisure industry
    Blackstone-owned casino operator Cirsa holds steady on market debut

    Listing in Spain marks rare bright spot in IPO market and signals healthy return for private equity group

    Cirsa logo at its headquarters in Barcelona, Spain
  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    US companies
    A new twist on an old bet with Buffett

    A new wager of the century?

    Warren Buffett
  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
    Due Diligence
    BlackRock’s big bet on private assets Premium content

    Plus, CoreWeave’s next financial engineering play and dealmakers are liberated from deal activity in Q2.

    BlackRock headquarters in New York
  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
    Private equity abandons early recruiting after Dimon fightback

    None of the largest US buyout firms proceeded with traditional June recruiting after JPMorgan chief objected

    Apollo Global Management sign on building
  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
    Markets InsightHuw van Steenis
    Gates open for affluent to invest in private credit

    Industry transformation under way to broaden access to the asset class to mainstream of wealth portfolios

    Montage of US dollar banknotes
  • Monday, 7 July, 2025
    News in-depthBlackRock Inc
    BlackRock tried private credit once before. Will this time be better?

    The public markets giant now owns HPS. Its previous deal for Tennenbaum Capital Management has a troubled history

    Larry Fink, Blakcrock, HPS and US dollar notes montage
  • Monday, 7 July, 2025
    Fund management
    Another problem with IRRs

    Idiotic return ratings

  • Monday, 7 July, 2025
    Fund management
    US public colleges expand PE investments despite downturn

    State school endowments see falling valuations as a prime opportunity to get in as public market expectations dim

    John Alexander, chief investment officer of the Clemson University Foundation
  • Saturday, 5 July, 2025
    On Wall StreetPete Stavros
    Private equity can defy the gloom narrative

    The industry is delivering strong returns to investors and has more potential to extend its benefits to employees

  • Friday, 4 July, 2025
    Mergers & Acquisitions
    GIC teams with private equity on stake in healthcare marketing agency Klick

    Company valued at almost $2.5bn as Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund and Linden Capital buy holding from GTCR

    GIC logo
  • Friday, 4 July, 2025
    IPOs
    London IPO fundraising falls to 30-year low

    Companies raise just £160mn in first half amid growing fears over waning attractiveness of UK markets

    The London Stock Exchange headquarters
  • Thursday, 3 July, 2025
    Business InsightRichard Waters
    Signs of a pick-up in venture capital exits are finally emerging

    Figma listing plans might raise hopes of a rise in IPO activity

    Figma logo displayed on a smartphone
  • Thursday, 3 July, 2025
    Due Diligence
    Private equity’s clash of the titans Premium content

    Plus, Thiel-backed bros launch rival to Silicon Valley Bank and venture capital tries conglomerates

    The KKR logo
  • Wednesday, 2 July, 2025
    Apollo-backed Athora buys UK’s Pension Insurance Corporation for £5.7bn

    Private capital group’s European insurance unit strikes deal for retirement savings group

    Apollo logo
  • Wednesday, 2 July, 2025
    Spectris PLC
    KKR pips Advent with £4.7bn offer for UK industrial company Spectris

    Private equity firms attracted by cheap valuations target UK-listed companies

    A KKR logo
  • Wednesday, 2 July, 2025
    Wealth management
    Savers should be able to tap private assets through Isas, says IA chief

    Putting semi-liquid funds into tax-free wrappers could have ‘profound’ effect on retirement incomes

    Chris Cummings
  • Wednesday, 2 July, 2025
    Venture capital investment
    Tech venture firms deploy private equity ‘roll-up’ strategy

    Thrive Capital’s backing of Savvy Wealth is part of growing effort to fund groups that go on to buy similar companies

    Savvy Wealth website on phone with US dollar background
  • Tuesday, 1 July, 2025
    Bain Capital
    Warner Music and Bain target $300mn Red Hot Chili Peppers catalogue deal

    Acquisition would be a coup for record company and private equity firm’s new song rights joint venture

    Bass guitarist Flea and drummer Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers perform on stage
  • Tuesday, 1 July, 2025
    Smythson, UK maker of £185 diaries, snapped up by private equity firm

    Lossmaking group with royal warrants is acquired by Oakley Capital

    Smythson’s shop in New Bond Street London
  • Tuesday, 1 July, 2025
    Due Diligence
    Hedge funds dive into private credit Premium content

    Plus, Meta’s big private credit talks and what next at BP?

    Daniel Loeb
  • Monday, 30 June, 2025
    Lex
    Private equity’s big tax perk is the one that got away — again Premium content

    Despite bipartisan distaste, the ‘carried interest’ distortion refuses to die

    A KKR logo displayed on a smartphone
  • Monday, 30 June, 2025
    Hedge funds
    Hedge funds seek to expand into private credit

    Millennium, Point72 and Third Point among those seeking to push into popular asset class

    Logos of Millennium Management, Point72 and Third Point with chart
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