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Investors pay up to join the private equity rush

Trading of stakes in buyout funds on course for a record year

robin wigglesworth
21.11.2019

The private equity boom has reached a level where investors are paying a premium for stakes in buyout funds managed by the industry's biggest beasts, deploying billions of dollars into a hot market despite a mounting political backlash.

Investors such as endowments, private banks, insurers and sovereign wealth and pension funds are on course to trade a record amount of stakes in private equity funds this year. Some institutions are seizing on investor demand for an alternative to highly priced bonds and equities in order to flip their investments.

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