| With private equity firms testing the limits of limited partners' ability and willingness to fill their new-fund coffers, sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) are emerging as a potential source of capital to help bridge the fund-raising gap.
Managers of investible assets of some of the world's richest nations, SWFs command enormous resources, which have quadrupled over the past decade to some $4.7 trillion in 2011. Increasingly, SWFs are looking to deploy assets in alternative investments, of which PE is a prime candidate...............................................Full Article: Source |