Private equity fundraising falters in Q3
Private equity fundraising lost some of its sparkle in the third quarter, according to Buyouts editor Greg Roth. U.S. pension funds, endowments and other limited partners all have began to pull back in the wake of renewed market upheaval and the possibility of a double-dip recession. What this means, according to private equity executives and [...]
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Supply of funds overwhelmed demand in 2011
Buyout executives and placement agents didn’t have many kind things to say about 2011, and they aren’t too excited about what 2012 has to offer. “The general fundraising environment is warming, but it’s not hot. 2012 will be mildly better than 2011, but there are a lot of new funds out there,” Bill Barnum, a partner [...]
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‘Investors getting a lot more careful,’ says Barnum of LA-based Brentwood Associates
As the third quarter fundraising by U.S. buyouts and mezzanine funds plunged 42 percent, down to $16 billion from the $27.8 billion raised in Q2, Bill Barnum, a partner at Los Angeles-based Brentwood Associates, foresees an even worse fourth quarter. “I get the feeling that investors are getting a lot more careful,” Barnum told Buyouts [...]
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Retrospective explores long-term economic consequences of 9/11 attacks
In his ten-year retrospective of 9/11, Buyouts reporter Gregory Roth interviewed private equity leaders throughout the country to explore the long-term economic consequences of the terrorist attacks. “The new world order is far less predictable than it was before the attacks,” Bill Barnum, a partner at Los Angeles-based Brentwood Associates, told Roth for the piece. [...]
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‘The consumer industry bounced back pretty significantly,’ Barnum tells Buyouts magazine
Brentwood Associates partner Bill Barnum spoke with Gregory Roth of Buyouts magazine for their June 6 issue on consumer-specialty firms and the ongoing trends of sector-specific private equity funds. “On the whole, the consumer industry bounced back pretty significantly from where it was. It may have been more volatile during the downturn, but now it seems [...]
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