Portfolio Management

Marc Andreessen thinks that AI will replace all jobs—except his. Is he right?

The deal marks PitchBook’s entrance into portfolio monitoring for GPs, starting with private credit.

Aurelius’ recent The Body Shop debacle is a good example of why PE has a bad reputation where beloved high-street brands are concerned.

Private equity is relying exclusively on the profitability of high-quality portfolio companies.

Early returns for the fiscal year 2023 indicate mixed results for some of America’s most prominent school endowment funds.

Higher interest rates have made capital call credit lines more expensive, prompting GPs to exercise greater discretion when utilizing these facilities.

PE firms will need to decide how to prop up struggling investments or if they may be better off giving them up altogether.

Calpers CIO Nicole Musicco leaves a legacy as a short-lived leader and staunch proponent of private market exposure.

Even as public markets experience a bull run, US PE firms are continuing a slow campaign of markdowns amid financing challenges and dwindling exit opportunities.

Institutions with climate risk embedded in their portfolios are looking to mitigate their exposure by investing in climate tech.

PitchBook Private Manager Style is a framework asset allocators and other private market participants can use to assess manager investment styles.

PEGs are finding more ways to hold on to promising assets longer while keeping investors happy.

The median holding time of private equity assets is continuing to decline—and it’s now down to 4.9 years, according to PitchBook’s 2019 Annual US PE Breakdown.

When politicians such as Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders pan the private equity industry for placing too much debt on companies, laying off workers and using tax loopholes to turn a quick profit, Great Hill Partners is not the first firm that typically comes to mind.

What happens when a private equity firm partners with a proudly snarky media company that has made a living poking fun at the establishment? Look no further than the recent drama at Deadspin.

In a post for PitchBook, Blue Ridge Partners managing partners James R. Corey discusses how PE firms should prioritize revenue growth initiatives earlier into the holding period.

The CEO of Accordion Partners talks about how the role of a portfolio company CFO has changed, the macro PE shifts driving those changes, and what PE may have in store for CFOs in the future.

PitchBook and Intralinks analyze the results of a survey of general partners covering reporting, data security and deal flow management.