Morning Hubsters!
This is Chris, for Wire Wednesdays.
Decarbonization: Ara Partners is acquiring Genera Energy, which makes non-wood, agricultural pulp-and-molded fiber products for packaging, writes Obey Martin Manayiti on PE Hub today. Genera’s products like food packaging for take-out meals in restaurants are made from agricultural fiber grown by farmers typically on non-productive land, Obey writes. Read the full piece here on PE Hub.
Slowish: I’m starting to get agreement from more sources that fundraising has indeed begun to slow down. Some GPs have decided to push back fundraisings into next year, and jockey for position on LPs’ 2023 schedules.
The factors helping to slow fundraising have been well-documented here, but generally include LPs blowing through their yearly allocation in the first half as GPs come back to market quicker than ever. The denominator effect has caused some institution’s PE actual allocations to rise well above their policy targets. This forces institutions to make tough choices about either selling down portions of their PE portfolio, expanding their target range (which requires a policy vote) or slowing their pace and waiting for their allocation to come back into balance.
And the uncertain, volatile nature of the broader economy is generally convincing some LPs to take a breather and become pickier on who they decide to back.
All this in an environment in which distributions are expected to slow down, according to a fresh study from Rede Partners. More than 53 percent of the 104 institutional LPs in the recent survey expect the volume of distributions to decrease in the upcoming year. If distributions indeed start to dry up, expect to see fundraising slow further as LPs contend with less money available to re-invest into the asset class.
That’s it for me! Hit me up with tips n’ gossip, feedback or book recommendations at cwitkowsky@buyoutsinsider.com or over on LinkedIn.
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