Competition Heats Up As Private Equity Funds Seek New Capital

Signs of momentum that began to build in private equity (PE) fund-raising in 2013 look primed to gather force in 2014. Indeed, as we described in Bain & Company’s latest Global Private Equity Report, the dynamics that are coming into focus on the supply-and-demand front suggest that 2014 could be a year of transition, marking the end of one long PE cycle and the start of a new one.