Isobel Markham
Isobel Markham is Editor of Private Equity International, overseeing the editorial content of the monthly magazine and contributing news and analysis for PrivateEquityInternational.com. Based in New York, Isobel works closely with private equity-focused colleagues across PEI Media’s offices in New York, London and Hong Kong. She is a graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
Key findings from the LP body’s latest best practice guidance.
The guidelines for best practice incorporate several key issues for limited partners, including GP-led secondaries, subscription credit lines and co-investments.
The City of Chicago treasurer on why he took a stand on ESG and what he considers the biggest threat to private equity as we know it.
In a heady fundraising environment, GPs are pushing fund terms in their favor, and it’s up to LPs to walk them back, Texas Municipal Retirement System’s director of private equity Christopher Schelling says.
UC Regents’ Scott Chan will be second-in-command to Christopher Ailman, who has led investment at the pension for almost two decades.
GPs are jumping at the chance to make use of credit lines, the investment consultant says, and greater transparency at the fund level is needed to help investors clearly assess performance.
The emerging markets specialist has suspended fundraising for its global fund and has released LPs from their commitments. What could this mean for the wider market?
In the next 10 years, half of private equity managers will move to charging only on invested capital, predicts Richard Clarke-Jervoise, a partner at family office Stonehage Fleming.
With assets in the trillions, a healthy penchant for private equity and autonomy over their investment strategy, family offices have a lot to offer fund managers.
In its latest earnings call, CEO Michael Sabia highlighted the pension fund’s investment in insurance company USI as an example.