EIP: Equity per mimicry

In today’s financial universe, the private equity space is a vital quadrant to map and monitor. Private equity (PE) investments –   allocations of capital that institutions and the wealthy inject into companies, not through stock markets but with the help of professional intermediaries – have grown into an alternative investments class worth $3.8 trillion in assets under management (AUM) in 2014 according to the 2015 Preqin Global Private Equity and Venture Capital Report. Achieving immense growth between 2004 and 2008 before suffering from bloodletting during and after the Great Recession, the worldwide PE industry has undergone a resurrection in the last few years. Worldwide in this context means, as it so often does in investment markets, first the North American market with 57 percent of all PE AUM in 2014, followed by Europe (24 percent) and then Asia (13 percent) – leaving 6 percent of activity for the rest