Private Equity Banks Investors Banks' Involvement in Private Equity Falling There have been several trends that have contributed to the decline in capital raised by private equity firms from banks. Perhaps most important among those trends is the regulation like Basel III and the Volcker Rule, but also liquidity concerns and a drop in client ...

President Obama Bain Capital Private Equity Enters the Presidential Election Again In previous years, private equity was most likely to be brought up with the presidential election when talking about donors to various campaigns. This year, however, we all knew that private equity would be front and center as the presumptive GOP nominee, Mitt ...

Private Equity JOBS ActJOBS Act Clears the Way for Private Equity MarketingPrivate equity firms may have an easier time marketing their services now that the JOBS Act has been signed into law. The recently signed JOBS Act will revise rules on hedge fund and private equity marketing allowing them to market to the general public. Still, the rules o...

30 Minute PresentationHow Private Equity Firms Can Raise Capital from Family OfficesRichard Wilson, CEO of Richard Wilson Capital Partners, recently delivered a speech in Singapore outlining 5 ways that private equity firms can raise capital from family offices. In the following video, Richard gives you a detailed look at how private equity firms ...

GAIM International 2012Join 800 Attendees in Monaco 18-20 June | 15% DiscountThe GAIM International Monaco Conference is the largest and longest running hedge fund event in Europe and I have secured an exclusive discount to attend this event. Richard Wilson was able to attend last year's GAIM International conference and he tells me it was a great...

Richard Wilson Capital Partners now Offers a Dedicated Family Office Capital Raising Team to Institutional-Quality Fund Managers Portland, OR March 19th, 2012 -- Third party marketing firm, Richard Wilson Capital Partners, now provides institutional-quality investment funds with capital raising services exclusively targeting family office investors...

Private Equity Interview RequestPrivate Equity Interview Request for the CPEPI am reaching out to experienced private equity professionals to participate in a brief phone interview with me this month. The interview will be used in our Certified Private Equity Professional program and possibly in the book that I am currently writing on private equit...

Private Equity InterviewRequest for Interview with Private Equity ProfessionalsA few months ago we put out a request for private equity professionals to participate in an interview with me on their career and the private equity industry. The response was huge and while I've conducted several interviews since then, I am still looking to complete a ...

Canada Private EquityCanada's Private Equity Sector Rebounding Swiftly from CrisisInteresting data coming from PitchBook on Canada's private equity industry. According to PitchBook, Canada's private equity sector is making an impressive, quick recovery from the financial recovery, especially compared to private equity in America. In 2011, investm...

Stephen Schwarzman SalarySchwarzman's Compensation Puts Private Equity in Cross-HairsStephen Schwarzman, a titan in the private equity industry, is set to receive a huge payday and it isn't tied to his actual compensation as CEO. Rather, Mr. Schwarzman will receive at least $120 million in 2011 dividends for his 21% ownership of the firm he founde...

Private Equity SEC InquiryPrivate Equity Firms Face Informal SEC Inquiry over ValuationThe biggest news in the private equity industry lately is the SEC informal inquiry of several private equity firms. The SEC is reportedly looking into how private equity firms value their investments and report performance to investors. Because private equity f...

Family Offices in SingaporeFamily Office Industry Growth in Singapore and Southeast Asia The following is a free white paper created by Richard Wilson of FamilyOfficesGroup.com on the family office industry growth in Singapore. You can download the Singapore Family Offices Whitepaper in PDF format. I recently was asked to speak at a few investment...

Foreign Corrupt Practices ActPrivate Equity and the Foreign Corrupt Practices ActI just came across an interesting read on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and how it can affect private equity firms and hedge funds. In an interview with FinAlternatives, Matthew Reinhard of the Washington, D.C.-based law firm Miller & Chevalier, talks about wh...

Facebook IPO Share ClassWhat are you Really Getting in the Facebook IPO?There's an interesting article I saw today on The Street about Facebook's impending IPO. If you missed it, Facebook, the massive social network, has filed for its long-anticipated initial public offering where it will finally sell shares of the company to the public. The arti...

TPG Capital GlobeOpTPG Capital Buying GlobeOp for $800 millionTPG Capital Group, one of the largest private equity firms in the world, has agreed to buy a hedge fund administration firm, GlobeOp (GO.L), for $800 million. This is a win for TPG, which hopes to establish a presence in the area of hedge fund administration services, as it beat out a c...

FIRM NAMEFirm Name | Private Equity Profile The private equity industry's lobbying group has selected its new chief executive. Steve Judge will head up the Private Equity Growth Capital Council after serving as interim head following the departure of past CEO Douglas Lowenstein. The Private Equity Growth Capital Council, formerly the Private Equi...

Private Equity Mitt RomneyMitt Romney, Private Equity, and Carried InterestThe Republican presidential primary has taken a particularly nasty turn with countless negative ads and mudslinging in the latest debates. One attack against Governor Mitt Romney has been particularly surprising in a GOP primary: that Mr. Romney made millions through the pr...

New Markets Movement Seeks to Bring Back IPOs I rarely pass along press releases, which I receive almost daily, but this one was especially intriguing and relevant to the private equity industry. IPOs represent an important exit path for private equity firms looking to make a return on their portfolio investments, but the IPO market has been less ...

Private Equity Seed Capital StrategiesFree Private Equity Video on Seed Capital Strategies The following video is borrowed from the Certified Private Equity Professional training program. I am frequently asked for advice on how to connect with seed capital providers for a private equity fund. In this video, I cover some strategies for obtaining s...

Join Us at the 7th Annual Private Equity Southeast Asia Summit!Greetings, My name is Richard Wilson and I want to personally invite you to a private equity conference that I will be speaking at in March. The 7th Annual Private Equity Southeast Asia Summit 2012 is a great opportunity for you to capitalize on the pre-eminent gathering of Southeast ...

Why Invest in Private EquityFree CPEP Video: Why Invest in Private EquityThe following video is borrowed from the Certified Private Equity Professional training program. A common question we receive is simply, ?Why invest in private equity?? In this video, you will learn some of the common reasons that investors choose to invest in private equity....

Leveraged Buyout ModelingTraining Series | Leveraged Buyout Modeling | Part 3The following video is borrowed from one of our BusinessTraining.com training programs, where you can also learn about the Certified Private Equity Professional program. This video is the second of a series on leveraged buyout modeling that I am including here as a free e...

Leveraged Buyout ModelingFree Training Series on Leveraged Buyout Modeling - Part 2The following video is borrowed from one of our BusinessTraining.com training programs, where you can also learn about the Certified Private Equity Professional program. This video is the second of a series on leveraged buyout modeling that I am including here as a ...

Leveraged Buyout ModelingFree Video Training Series on Leveraged Buyout ModelingThe following video is borrowed from one of our BusinessTraining.com training programs, where you can also learn about the Certified Private Equity Professional program. This video is the first of a series on leveraged buyout modeling that I am including here as a free...

Northeast Capital Raising WorkshopAttend a Full Day Capital Raising Workshop in Boston Only 37 Seats Left for Next Thursday's Full Day Capital Raising Workshop in Boston If you want to raise capital more effectively, join your peers at the Harvard Club of Boston next week for a premier capital raising workshop this September. Although it is hosted...

Private Equity 2012 Presidential ElectionWill Private Equity Back President Obama Again in 2012?Many private equity and hedge fund managers made major donations to President Obama in his 2008 presidential campaign. Now, however, there are questions of whether professionals in the private equity and hedge fund industries will support him again or b...

Pension Fund Investment JobsBE PART OF THE RETIREMENT FUND INCORPORATED TEAM IN LONDON,UK A pension fund based in Malaysia is looking for qualified applicants for three positions: fund manager, investment analyst and office manager. Hiring preference is given to applicants who have completed Certified Private Equity Professional (CPEP), Certified...

AXA Private Equity FundsAXA Private Equity Raises $3b for Secondary Fund of FundsAXA just completed a buying spree of secondary private equity portfolios from banks to the tune of $5 billion. Now, AXA Private Equity has reportedly raised $3 billion for a secondary private equity fund of funds. AXA Private Equity is looking to raise as much as $4 ...

Fortress Investment Group LossFortress Investment Group Posts 13% 2Q Revenue LossFortress Investment Group continues to boost assets under management despite stiff losses in the second quarter of 2011. A decline in segment revenue contributed to losses for the hedge fund and private equity fund management firm. CEO Daniel Mudd expressed his dissat...

Blackstone Group EmdeonBlackstone Group Taking Emdeon Private for $3 BillionThe healthcare IT provider Emdeon Inc (EM.N) has agreed to a buyout from Blackstone Group. Blackstone Group (BX.N) will take Emdeon private for $3 billion. This deal is part of a larger trend of private equity activity in the healthcare sector. If you are looking for con...

Private Equity CorporationPrivate Equity Firms Look to Corporate Division Primary DealsPrivate equity firms looking for new deals are increasingly turning to corporate divisions. Instead of buying out whole corporations, private equity firms are buying out corporate divisions such as GlaxoSmithKline's (GSK.L) non-prescription drugs, fashion group ...

Private Equity Funds PayPrivate Equity Face Regulations on Bonuses, Pay DisclosureHedge funds and private equity firms thought they had escaped curbs on pay from Britain's Financial Services Authority and other European regulators, but that doesn't seem to be true, according to PwC. Hedge funds and private equity firms are running into rules on how...

Vintage Year Private EquityWhat is the Vintage Year? | Private Equity | DefinitionI was looking through some of the training videos we're uploading for the Certified Private Equity Professional program and I found a topic that I had not defined on here: vintage year. The vintage year is the year in which the private equity or venture capital fund...

Eric Cantor Private EquityCantor: Ally to Hedge Funds and Private Equity in Debt TalksIt would be difficult to avoid writing in some way about the debt talks that are taking place in Washington. There is an interesting profile of Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and his work fighting against attempts to raise taxes on hedge funds a...

The Next Dotcom BubbleDo the IPOs of Zillow & LinkedIn Spell a Dotcom Bubble? What can we take away from the successful IPO of real estate website Zillow.com this week? At least one observer is suggesting that this spells the beginnings of the next dotcom bubble. I'm not so sure. While there are certainly some bloated valuations of internet...

Blackstone Group Stock Blackstone Group Poised for a Private Equity Comeback? Forbes has a good piece today on the resurgence of Blackstone Group (BX). After taking a severe hit during the Great Recession, Blackstone Group looks poised to make a strong comeback and, hopefully, lead private equity to one as well. How do you prove that your private...

Private Equity Firm Directory Gain Access to a Directory of 1,000+ Private Equity Firms Private equity firms are notoriously hard to contact. If you have been trying in vain to get in touch with executives, partners and associates at private equity firms, I have a solution for you: the Private Equity Directory. Our team has invested our time in...

Private Equity New York Pension Funds New York Pensions Look to Trim Private Equity Holdings Bad news for private equity: New York City's pension funds are looking to dump as much as $2 billion in private equity holdings. At least one of five pension funds in New York is considering selling its stakes in Clayton, Dubilier & Rice LLC and Silver...

CalPERS Private Equity PerformanceCalPERS Posts 20% Gain Boosted by Private Equity Performance Good news for private equity firms trying to make the case to institutional investors that they should increase their allocation to private equity: CalPERS just posted a 20.7% gain partly from investments in private equity. This marks the best return for...

Private Equity Deals July 2011 Private Equity Deals & Rumors for July 15 2011 It's Friday, so we'll have a quick wrap-up of the week today. This week we saw that venture capital and private equity have so far invested $93 million in 2011. Also, in venture capital news, VC funds raised 20% more in the first half of 2011 than the same period l...

Private Equity Deals July 2011 Private Equity Deals & Rumors for July 14 2011 Starting today's newsletter is an article about private equity firms buying nonbanking financial companies in India. Next, private equity firms are increasingly turning to their investors to partner with in large deals, rather than a competing private equity firm in...

Private Equity Deals July 2011 Private Equity Deals & Rumors for July 13 2011 The big news this morning comes from across the pond: Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. has withdrawn a bid to buy British TV network BSkyB amid the growing scandal at News Corp.-owned newspapers. Earlier this week, in a cunning political move, Murdoch withdrew some anti-...

Private Equity Deals July 2011 Private Equity Deals & Rumors for July 12 2011 The news for this Tuesday is a little scattered: first, we take a look a US venture capital fundraising numbers and how the increase may not be as great as it seems. Then, California's pension system is looking for a private equity fund of funds manager to invest in...

Private Equity Deals July 2011 Private Equity Deals & Rumors for July 11 2011 Happy Monday, today started with a press conference from President Obama discussing the large debt deal that he and Congressional leaders are trying to hammer out ahead of the August 2 deadline. In today's newsletter: more news on private equity fundraising in the U...

Private Equity Deals July 2011 Private Equity Deals & Rumors for July 8 2011 The last day of the work week and it appears it will be a bitter end as the latest jobs report has showed significantly less job growth in June than economists predicted. Most analysts that I've heard talk on the report point to the high price of oil as the main caus...

Private Equity Deals July 2011 Private Equity Deals & Rumors for July 7 2011 We're almost through this short week and I, for one, am looking forward to another nice weekend. In today's newsletter, there is mostly fundraising news and also an interesting article on private equity investment in India. Enjoy! Private Equity Real Estate Continu...

Private Equity Deals Private Equity Deals & Rumors for July 6 2011 The newsletter for today is a little bit brief because I've been fielding a lot of phone calls and e-mails. It's a pretty positive news cycle for private equity today: a couple minor deals, Lexington Partners closed its $7 billion Lexington Capital Partners VII fund, and wealt...