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The Pulse of Private Equity – 1/3/2022

Predicting the year ahead Download PitchBook’s Report here. Every year, PitchBook gets into the prediction game. This year’s US Private Equity Outlook has 7 predictions, including an intriguing one for middle market software investment. 2021 set records for PE software activity – 317 deals totaling $45 billion in aggregate value. For 2022, we’re predicting 400 software…

All Ahead Full: Private Credit Outlook 2022 (Last of a Series)

We planned last year to publish a special series on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG). Unlike most topics in our commentaries, the origins and complexities of ESG were unfamiliar. To the rescue came our Nuveen colleagues, a Responsible Investing team of close to thirty ESG professionals. Of course, risk management is core to Churchill’s own…

PDI Picks – 1/3/2022

Ways through the ESG maze Europe has seen an explosion of loans encouraging better borrower behaviour in relation to ESG issues. We look at some of the key developments so far. In the February 2022 issue of Private Debt Investor, we will be focusing on the rapid growth of ESG-linked loans in the European private…

Private Debt Intelligence - 1/3/2022

Private debt fundraising in 2021 Investor demand for private debt is strong, with funds exceeding targets by record margins in 2021. The average percentage of target size at final close last year reached 120%, a sharp contrast to 2020 when the average final close was 98% of target size. Even compared to pre-pandemic fundraising… Subscribe