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Shakeout Looms Large for PE

Limited partner asset allocation issues and declining returns threaten to hamper deal making and fundraising prospects for buyout firms


By Kelly Holman

June 19, 2009

If private-equity executives were sailors, right about now they might be rounding Cape Horn, an area at South America's tip where treacherous waters have sunk more than a few vessels. A significant amount of leveraged buyout firms, or 23%, are expected to go out of business in coming years, according to the latest survey of 120 global institutional investors conducted by London and New York-based secondary private-equity firm Coller Capital.

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