Private Equity Firms Gear Up For An Influx Of Capital

Thanks to investors’ appetite for allocating more to private equity firms, CFOs should position their firms skillfully to win the competition for capital, suggests an Ernst & Young survey. Following its second annual CFO survey of the global private equity industry, EY has published a report titled: “Positioning to win- 2015 global private equity survey” and states that CFOs must move beyond tactical actions to strategic priorities.

Investors’ preference for private equity      

According to the EY survey, in sharp contrast to the past several years, now investors have clearly indicated that they are most likely to allocate capital to private equity compared to other alternative asset classes:

As a testament to the performance and...