Intensifying fears of a market correction mean hedge fund managers and investors are putting plans on hold. The number of both fund launches and fund searches almost halved in Q3 compared to Q2. Hedge funds may have gained a modest return of +2.14% over the 12 months to September, but the asset clas…

Private debt proves it is a source of sustainable and reliable income for investors in ongoing turbulence, outperforming both natural resources and real estate. However, Q3 saw the lowest amount of capital raised in any quarter since Q1 2018. The general consensus is that we are in the late stage of…

Preqin Quarterly Update: Private Equity & Venture Capital, Q3 2019 provides the latest data on fundraising, funds in market, investors, deals and performance & dry powder.  We find appetite for private equity remains strong in Q3 2019, with funds securing an aggregate of $163bn in the quarter. Howe…

The Preqin Quarterly Update: Infrastructure Q3 2019 covers fundraising, funds in market, investors, deals and performance. We find that investor sentiment is bearish, with only 19 funds raising an aggregate $8.4bn; this is significantly down on Q3 2018 when the industry secured $44bn across 29 unli…

Preqin Quarterly Update: Natural Resources, Q3 2019 includes details on fundraising, funds in market, investors and performance. Fundraising in Q3 2019 secured $8.2bn, making it the worst quarter in over five years. However, fund managers remain confident in the industry, with new funds entering …

Preqin Quarterly Update: Real Estate, Q3 2019 provides a detailed look at fundraising, funds in market, investors, deals and performance.  The threat of slowing economic growth and increasing political risk hangs over the final quarter of 2019. In spite of this, industry fundamentals appear strong:…

As geopolitical tensions and trade uncertainties intensify, the global macroeconomic outlook is increasingly uncertain. With bond yields falling, however, equities have rallied this year following a difficult Q4 2018. With these tailwinds, hedge funds have had an extremely strong start to 2019, alth…

What to make of the private equity industry in Q2 2019? By most markers, it seems to have been a worrying period of decline – fundraising has well and truly withdrawn from the heights reached in 2017 and much of 2018, while both the buyout and venture capital deals markets have recorded fewer transa…

While the overall narrative of private debt has been of strong long-term growth, in Q2 2019 the asset class is undeniably in a slump. Fundraising in the first half of the year has sunk to its lowest level since 2016, fewer and smaller funds are coming to market, performance is flat across most strat…

The infrastructure industry does not seem able to throw off the air of cautiousness that has gripped the private capital industry in Q2. Investors are generally looking to make fewer and smaller investments than they were 12 months ago, deal activity has been declining each quarter for over a year, …

The real estate industry has been running slightly counter-cyclical to the wider private capital industry in recent quarters. While fundraising in private equity and private debt has been declining since the mid­dle of 2018, real estate funds surged to their highest fundraising in over a year in Q1.…

The natural resources industry has been struggling to generate momentum for some time. Since the crash of oil prices in 2015, even subsequent spikes in commodities prices have failed to generate much enthusiasm for the sector. Q2 has not broken this trend, with fundraising falling further and invest…

What a difference a quarter makes. In our Q1 2019 update, we look at how the hedge fund industry has recovered from a tough end to 2018 – the worst quarter in over a decade – by hitting the ground running in 2019. All top-level strategies made performance gains in the quarter, and yet as volatility …

Private debt has struggled to outgrow the trend of capital concentration among established fund managers – of the little fundraising activity to occur in the quarter, the majority was driven by a small number of large funds. We look at investors’ plans for the year ahead, the latest fund performance…

The private equity industry is preoccupied by a key question in 2019: which sectors will be worst affected by the expected equity market downturn? We analyze investors’ expected activity in the asset class to see how they are positioning themselves ahead of an expected market shift, alongside the la…

In the first quarter of the year, infrastructure has stayed relatively on par with historical fundraising levels, with $15bn secured over the period. We look at the fundraising, deals and investor activity from the quarter alongside the most up-to-date performance figures.

In Q1 2019, the natural resources industry struggled to recover momentum: just seven funds closed in the quarter, a five-year low. We analyze historical fundraising activity alongside investors’ plans for the year ahead to predict what the remainder of 2019 holds in store for the asset class.

Although fewer real estate funds closed in Q1 2019 than Q4 2018, fundraising momentum remains strong in historical context, with almost $40bn raised in the quarter. We look at funds currently in market alongside investors’ plans for the year ahead to see what 2019 could bring, plus the latest data o…