Following several years of go-go recruiting, chinks are beginning to show in the PE hiring market’s armor.
While hiring remains active it is slower than last year, Laurie Thompson, founder and executive recruiter of fundraising and investor relations specialist Willow Hill Advisors, told Private Equity Career News. Thompson’s survey of 95 hiring managers last fall found about 13 percent of respondents expecting to actively recruit in 2024. That was down from about 27 percent in 2023.
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Two rainmakers who spent more than a dozen years as colleagues at Audax Private Equity have joined forces to close their first platform investment. And they look forward to additional firsts: their first associate hires, their first Boston office, and their first committed fund.
The following Big Move! items appeared in the March 22 edition of Private Equity Career News:
Buyout firm Charlesbank Capital Partners and credit shopBeach Point Capital Management have hired new senior talent executives, the latest moves by PE firms to strengthen their talent leadership ranks. Both firms employ teams of more than 160 people.
The number of women and minority-owned private equity and venture capital firms in the United States has grown rapidly in recent years, to more than 900.
The San Francisco Employees’ Retirement System has opened a search for a senior portfolio manager of private credit as it expands its private credit portfolio.
The following Big Move items appeared in the March 8 free edition of Private Equity Career News: