Investors

European investors embrace transparency, US counterparts remain sceptical

Differences remain between European and US investors, according to the latest research. The former also backed the re-emergence of European venture as opposed to their circumspect peers in the US.

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More than half of European limited partners and a third of US LPs believe private equity should be accountable to a wider group of stakeholders at larger portfolio companies, according to Coller Capital’s Private Equity Barometer.

Walker:
US investors 
sceptical about
transparency
initiatives

Private equity has suffered a year of unprecedented scrutiny on both sides of the Atlantic in 2007, culminating in self-regulation via the Walker Report in the UK.