Private Equity

Advisers may be holding back from private equity investment because they have an exaggerated view on the liquidity risks involved, but providers offer more liquidity now than ever, and smart advisers are capitalising on this.

Lack of liquidity and transparency have long been sticking points in retail uptake of private equity, but the industry is changing its ways even as an education challenge remains.

After a “frenzy” in the pre-pandemic era, markets have calmed down significantly for private equity investment teams. There are opportunities, however, especially for management teams with patience and a little bit of nous.

HMC has invested heavily in the hope that after 30 years of disappointing shareholders, Lendlease can reinvent itself by shedding non-core assets and recycling capital into its large scale urban projects.

David Di Pilla’s listed property group is shaking things up with a fund that combines the best features of private and public investing to create a pro-active management style equity fund.

Comparing public and private market performance can be misleading, according to a new study from PGIM, and CIOs need to look deeper into the data.

Private equity may provide outsized returns, but it comes with a liquidity catch. Traditional listed equity investing doesn’t, but it has its own drawbacks. Combine the two, says HMC’s Victoria Hardie, and you have a better balance.

The structural advantages of private equity span every phase of the investment process, Ng told a room full of advisers and associates. During the buy, the hold and the sell, he said, PE outpoints traditional public market offerings.

The listed property group formed by former star UBS banker David Di Pilla has gone from a standing start in 2015 to a retail and commercial investment force, with its latest acquisition pushing funds under management to $7.5 billion.

Despite its lack of liquidity, PE’s popularity in the institutional and wholesale market is set to filter into the retail market with more fund managers offering a conduit to access the burgeoning sector.

Household wealth in September recorded its third largest quarterly decline since the Australian Bureau of Statistics began keeping records in 1989. And wealth is likely to keep falling in the coming quarters, as the lagged effects of interest rate hikes flow through.

New data from bfinance and Invesco sees Australian investors and sovereign funds reducing exposure to growth assets in favour of private markets