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19.02.2025 – Articles
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The myth of the perfect pitch: why authenticity beats showmanship
19.02.2025 – Contributors
Rewire’s Anika Scott details the pitfalls of overly polished investor pitches and provides practical guidance on how to communicate with authenticity.
Op tip: Quantifying value creation
29.01.2025 – Podcasts & Videos
Holland Mountain’s Jeremy Hocter shares his next operational focus for 2025: the importance of quantifying value creation and the need for a structured approach to understanding and communicating value creation levers.
Sowing the seed
27.01.2025 – Articles
GCM Grosvenor has just raised the largest debut fund for GP seeding. Here we take a quick dip into the rapidly growing GP seeding market, including a list of the key players.
Gp financing: locked out
20.01.2025 – Articles
GP financing can be too costly or tricky to secure. Despite a handful of structural innovations coming to market, these solutions also favour larger managers, meaning small caps are increasingly being locked out of financing solutions.
Evergreen funds in bloom
17.01.2025 – Articles
The relatively nascent yet fast growing market is well on its way to bridging the gap between public and private investment spheres.
The eternal fundraise
13.01.2025 – Articles
While in recent years, it might seem as though some fundraises have been never-ending, Rewire Partners founders Sarah Clarke and Anika Randawa Scott, believe the key to successful fundraising is to remain in sales mode, regardless of the fundraising cycle.
An IR team built for today and tomorrow
11.12.2024 – Articles
Karen Sands, COO of Federated Hermes Private Equity has transformed the firm’s IR team over the past 12 months, growing headcount from 1.6 to six FTEs, with a mix of skill sets, experience, professional qualifications and seniority. We spoke to Sands to find out how she did it and the impact it’s had so far.
Mood swings
03.12.2024 – Articles
Gen II’s Core Alternative Managers’ Mood Index (CAMMI) reveals GP optimism for 2025, other findings include continued talent and tech challenges as well as the most popular fund domiciles
High profile
26.11.2024 – Articles
The private equity social media playbook is emerging, begging the question; could your online presence genuinely influence fundraising and growth outcomes?
How to AIFMD II
04.11.2024 – Articles
Coming into force on April 16, 2026, AIFMD II aims to raise standards in the private capital fund industry. Here we dig into the most complex and cumbersome updates.
Tearing down the wall
29.10.2024 – Articles
Unlocking the operational constraints of raising non-institutional capital and managing liquidity requirements.
Horizon scanning
28.10.2024 – Articles
The latest thinking from the CSSF and the FCA on private capital markets’ rules.
Geopolitical uncertainty reshaping investment strategies
21.10.2024 – Articles
PGIM’s 2024 Global Risk Report, based on the findings from a survey of 400 institutional investors managing $9trn in assets, underscores the need for resilient investing strategies in an increasingly unpredictable world.
The concerns section of a due diligence report
01.10.2024 – Articles
LP-GP expert Anthony Kwesi Hagan, highlights several ways effective and ineffective counterarguments are constructed in the concerns section of due diligence reports. He urges GPs to ease the report-building process for LP through honest exchanges, unwavering transparency, and authentic objectivity.
Reputational risk
24.09.2024 – Articles
Anthony Kwesi Hagan, LP-GP relationship expert and founder of Freedomization, details the ways in which LPs attempt to map out a GP’s character.
LPs can do better
17.09.2024 – Articles
Anthony Kwesi Hagan, founder and head of research at Freedomization, turns the ‘fault-seeking magnifying glass inwards’ and calls out LP behaviours not conducive to a constructive relationship. These include: giving false hope, ghosting, lecturing and being just plain rude.
Independence day
03.09.2024 – Articles
The deal by deal strategy is red hot right now, and it’s growing popularity provides important reminders for the traditional funds industry.
GP staking: what’s your flavour?
06.08.2024 – Articles
As GP staking becomes more mainstream, three distinct strategies have emerged. Ed Stubbings, managing director of Ternion and founder of the British Emerging Manager Institute, dishes out the differences.
Information overload
24.07.2024 – Articles
“1,600 questions and all in different formats; it’s killing us.”
How GPs are responding to ever-mounting information demands from investors