FirstFT: Investors sell stakes in buyout funds at a record pace

Good morning. Investors are promoting stakes in non-public equity and enterprise capital funds this 12 months at the quickest pace on record, because the downturn in equities spreads to personal markets that boomed due to low rates of interest.

Pension and sovereign wealth funds have been amongst sellers of $33bn value of stakes in non-public funds in the primary six months of 2022, up from $19bn in the identical interval in 2021, sometimes promoting them beneath face worth, in response to Jefferies.

The sell-off follows a decade of surging allocations to personal markets, which have grown because the monetary disaster and canopy buyout companies, enterprise capital and actual property funds.

The stake shedding additionally casts doubts on the flexibility of those teams to maintain the fundraising that has remodeled them into a main pressure in international dealmaking.

Pension funds stated the shift to ditch stakes was partly triggered by steep declines in stock markets, which left portfolios too uncovered to buyout funds and different non-public investments whose worth has not been marked down in the identical approach.

Happy Monday and thanks for studying FirstFT Europe/Africa — Jennifer

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