For many emerging private equity managers, fundraising is a difficult task. Investors that are comfortable with first-time funds can be few and far between if managers don’t target the right prospects. BHA analysts spoke with several large institutional investors in … Continue reading
Of the more than 500 active private equity mandates in the BHA system, just less than 13% come from wealth advisors. The majority of these investors are located in the U.S. and Europe (50% and 28%, respectively). BHA defines a … Continue reading
Hedge funds focused on the agriculture and natural resources sectors have been popular among investors in the past few quarters. However, BHA analysts have seen a new trend recently: investors looking to their less-liquid counterparts for growth opportunities in these … Continue reading
Institutional investors usually structure their asset allocation plans to include investments that act as inflation hedges. Such vehicles generally include a combination of real estate, commodities, infrastructure, oil and gas, and timber funds. Investors have various ways of classifying these … Continue reading
A leveraged buyout, or LBO, is an acquisition of a business using mostly debt. Using leverage is often attractive to investors, because they only have to provide a fraction of the capital needed for an acquisition, which can lead to … Continue reading
With Facebook, Groupon, and Twitter now household names, and IPOs for LinkedIn and Renren (China’s largest social networking site, which had a market value of $7.4 billion after its first day of trading on the NYSE) demonstrating to investors the … Continue reading
After reporting 7.5% economic growth in 2010, Brazil has now become the fifth largest economy in the world, surpassing the U.K. and France.1 Brazil was close behind China and India, which were the global leaders in economic growth. Together, it … Continue reading
As the prices of soft commodities continue to rise, so do food prices, and many investors are looking for ways to both profit from the boom and hedge against inflation. Perhaps not too surprisingly, farmland has attracted attention-investors are now … Continue reading
Over the past year, the BHA analyst team saw an 18.5% increase in the number of mandates for specialist, or sector-focused, private equity funds. Analysts also documented a 100% increase in the number of mandates for funds with less than … Continue reading
Throughout 2010 and into the first quarter of 2011, BHA analysts spoke with well over 1,000 private equity investors from around the globe. When the research team analyzed their mandates, the sector that was mentioned most often as an area … Continue reading