Private Equity Shifts Gears In Emerging Markets

After surveying another year of disappointing results from their emerging market investments in 2013, many private equity (PE) investors that had enthusiastically piled into the big developing economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China (the BRICs) are rethinking their emerging market strategies.  As we discuss in Bain & Company’s 2014 Global Private Equity Report, the problem PE faces in emerging markets is stark: General partners (GPs) are failing to deliver on the job their limited partners (LPs) hire them to do—to generate market-beating returns. Indeed, returns of emerging market PE funds have been trending lower for nearly a decade. Even the best performers’ results have dropped steadily from their vintage peak.

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-Igor P Purlantov