https://pitchbook.com/tag/playbook-sept-2017 playbook-sept-2017 en-US Mon, 18 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMT https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/pe-grapples-with-the-decline-of-brick-and-mortar-retail Dozens of brick-and-mortar retailers across the industry have shuttered stores or entered bankruptcy in the past year-and-a-half—a trend that strikes particularly close to home for private equity. Mon, 18 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMT https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/pe-grapples-with-the-decline-of-brick-and-mortar-retail https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/unlocking-residual-value-venture-capital-fund-performance-datagraphic In 2015, venture capitalists returned massive sums of capital to their investors, capping off several years of strong growth in distributions. However, that may have represented a high-water mark... Fri, 15 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMT https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/unlocking-residual-value-venture-capital-fund-performance-datagraphic https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/a-decade-of-venture-capital-an-era-of-excess-datagraphic Venture activity has moved well beyond levels reached before the global financial crisis over the past few years. Overall deal count has slipped since the high of 2015, but the industry is still... Fri, 15 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMT https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/a-decade-of-venture-capital-an-era-of-excess-datagraphic https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/bezos-is-coming-mapping-amazons-growing-reach Amazon seems to be on everyone’s minds. No doubt hundreds of pitches to venture firms have been re-worked to answer the question: How will you compete with Amazon? Fri, 15 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMT https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/bezos-is-coming-mapping-amazons-growing-reach https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/a-decade-of-pe-the-rise-fall-and-rise-again-of-private-equity-datagraphic Since the mega-buyout boom in the years just prior to the Great Recession, the PE cycle has run nearly a full turn. In clear evidence of cyclicality, the massive tally of capital committed in 2007... Fri, 15 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMT https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/a-decade-of-pe-the-rise-fall-and-rise-again-of-private-equity-datagraphic https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/the-turning-of-the-cycle-private-equity-fund-performance-datagraphic Capitalizing on a booming M&A environment and welcoming public markets, in the first few years of the 2010s PE fund managers returned billions to their investors. After cresting from 2014 to 2015... Fri, 15 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMT https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/the-turning-of-the-cycle-private-equity-fund-performance-datagraphic