Emerging market GPs see slower fundraising

Although panelists at the IFC’s 10th Global Private Equity Conference in Washington DC are sanguine about their deal flow in the emerging markets, some spoke of seeing a slowdown in the pace of fundraising.

Although limited partners are more interested in the emerging markets than ever, that might not be enough to ward of a fundraising slowdown, said general partners at the International Finance Corporation’s 10th Global Private Equity Conference in Washington DC yesterday.

During the opening panel of the conference, “Emerging Markets Private Equity in 2008,” participants agreed that the frenetic pace of fundraising that characterised 2007 has already begun to slow.

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