Private Equity Fundraising on the Rise, According to Study

The majority (63 percent) of private equity fund managers — regardless of fund size — are receiving new commitments from Limited Partners (LPs), according to the third annual PErspective private equity study by BDO USA, one of the nation’s leading accounting and consulting organizations. That’s up from 56 percent of fund managers who indicated they were receiving new commitments from LPs in 2010 and only 40 percent who said so in 2009.