A secretive summit between some big-name private equity general partners and limited partners in New York on Tuesday was “productive” with more “agreement than disagreement”, according to Joseph Dear, chief investment officer of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System.
A group of high-powered GPs and LPs met on Tuesday to discuss “the role of private equity in the portfolios and the challenges and opportunities facing the industry”, Dear said in an emailed statement after the meeting.
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Dear, in the emailed statement, called the summit an Institutional Limited Partners Association roundtable. ILPA is an organisation of the biggest investors in private equity, representing more than $1 trillion in assets.
ILPA released guidelines last year intended to better align the interests of LPs with GPs. The ILPA guidelines have become a source of tension in the LP/GP relationship, as investors press for the more investor-friendly terms and managers try to determine which guidelines are feasible to meet.
ILPA and the firms that reportedly attended the roundtable declined or were not available for comment. Private equity real estate LPs and GPs have been promoting the ILPA guidelines as a possible means of improving the alignment of interest in blind pool, commingled property funds.
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