Investment Funds Observations 2017 - Part Six

From our vantage point as advisers to many of the world's top private equity houses, broad market forces flow through to our instructions, and ultimately drive many of the terms of the funds we advise.

In this series we take a look at what we have been seeing in the investment funds world. Part six will focus on private equity funds.

Fund Geographies

Whilst North America continues to represent the most dominant geographical strategy, with investors drawn to its developed, secure economies, there has been a notable increase in emerging markets focussed fund launches, with the Asian market in particular performing strongly.

European focussed strategies by contrast have been less active, a possible consequence of volatile macro events such as the Brexit vote. In general we continue to see funds with global geographical strategies, limited rather by focus on particular asset classes such as technology.