The 10 largest funds, including Hellman & Friedman Capital Partners X and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice Fund XI, gathered nearly $150bn between them and accounted for one-fifth of fundraising last year.

Growing numbers of GPs are looking at NAV loans as a tool to fund distributions and boost IRRs before returning to a red-hot market. They should think carefully first.

Unless front-line employees are excited to work at a PE-backed company, the industry will struggle to respond to its critics, says the investment firm's executive chairman Steffen Meister.

The venture firm’s unusual fee structure is an example of why the SEC believes it needs to intervene to protect investors.

Government approval for foreign acquisitions of local companies is harmful to the industry, Spanish PE and VC association president Aquilino Peña says.

Carlyle Group’s head of impact Megan Starr and Ukrainian private equity firm Horizon Capital deserve special mention in this year’s PEI Awards 2021.

Investor appetite for private equity mega-funds appear untouched as coronavirus prompts a flight to quality.

Fundraising delays, rising demand in China for US dollar commitments and a backlog of transactions are expected to bolster the number of sponsor-led secondaries coming to market in 2021.

The software and services specialist is seeking more than $14bn across Hg Genesis 10 and Hg Saturn 3, investor documents show.

KKR has registered KKR Global Impact Fund, joining the likes of Bain, TPG and Goldman Sachs in targeting social and environmental impact. Read more here.

Tell us who deserves a place in PEI’s annual 40 under 40: Future Leaders of Private Equity list.

GPs should drive the creation of consistent and comparable data disclosures and common standards in ESG, executives from Carlyle Group and Macquarie say.

Limited partners tell PEI's Nicole Douglas how they're planning to deal with the challenges ahead in 2021.

Explore the past 10 years of capital raising and see which firms have risen the ranks, including data on Blackstone, Carlyle Group, KKR and more.

Who has the power to turn an investor 'no' into a 'yes'? Who got first-time funds off the ground? Presenting PEI's list of the most influential fundraisers in private equity today.

Perpetual AUM increased 70% year over year to nearly $200bn across 16 unique vehicles, president Jonathan Gray shared on Thursday's earnings call.

Separately managed accounts could stand to win from the US regulator’s bid to promote transparency around preferential fund terms.

The growth of special purpose acquisition companies could eat into buying opportunities across private equity, venture capital and growth, according to Michael Arougheti.

The $1.2trn China Investment Corporation last year established its first ESG policy framework, as the country bids to reach peak carbon emissions by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060.

Private equity funds gathered $241bn through June, a marginal increase from $233.7bn during the same period last year.

The $87bn university endowment is tasked with generating returns to help fund Japanese science and tech research.

Funds that closed on more than $5bn in H1 took on average 15 months to do so, longer than in any of the previous five years, according to PEI data.

Our interactive presentation breaks down private equity capital raising by strategy, geography, manager and more, and includes a list of the biggest funds in market as of January 2021.

Industry heavyweights have highlighted the need to retain staff to help struggling businesses get back to full speed once economies reopen.

Vehicles by Hellman & Friedman, KKR and EQT are among the 10 largest in market as of mid-February, PEI data show.

Shenzhen’s China Merchants Capital oversees more than $41bn of private equity, infra and real estate AUM and has ambitions to increase this more than threefold.

A host of potential entrants to the double-digit fund club, a raft of fund closes below target and an influx of Indian investment are on the cards in the year ahead.

Mei-ni Yang joined the Canadian pension giant in Hong Kong earlier this month after more than five years at LP advisory Mercer.

Firms with the means and resources can access the US retail market via the 1940 Investment Companies Act, which them to raise non-institutional capital.

The investment firm has stepped up its ESG goals and aims for 75% of portfolio company employees to benefit from a value sharing mechanism.

Investors are placing increasing emphasis on environmental, social and governance factors in due diligence, our LP survey suggests.

That impact funds continue to attract capital during a flight to safety is evidence of LPs’ shifting priorities.

New guidelines clear away a web of no-action letters and provide new guidance, possibly opening up the opportunity for private funds to innovate, but coming with their own complexities.

The real estate investment firm owned by Tom Barrack agreed this week to buy part of the ailing Abraaj business. What do we know?

Partners Group was selected by Employees Provident Fund of Malaysia last month to manage one of three sharia-compliant private equity mandates.

Our senior editors discuss the findings of our latest surveys looking at how private equity investors and their managers are doing business during the covid-19 crisis.

Predictions are notoriously tricky, so here instead are PEI’s anti-predictions.