Walkers Fundamentals 2019 Private Equity Trends - Part 1

From our vantage point as advisers to many of the world's top investment fund managers and financial institutions, broad market forces flow through to our instructions, and ultimately drive many of the terms of the funds we advise.

In this four-part series we look at the current themes we have noticed in the investment funds market. Parts one (here) and two (here) focus on Hedge Funds and parts three and four explore Private Equity.

All data, unless referenced, is taken from Walkers' in-house investment funds survey.

TRENDS

2019 has been another year of significant fundraising activity, with both established and emerging managers operating across multiple asset classes, strategies and geographies having gone to market and successfully closed funds of varying sizes. The big players have again been able to launch a number of multi-billion dollar funds, while smaller managers have still found opportunities to market and raise sub-billion dollar funds too. The