By Chris Cumming
Aug. 9, 2019

Private-equity fundraising has remained strong in 2019 with many firms able to raise ever larger funds in ever shorter time frames. Among their biggest allies in this effort are the placement agents that help market those funds.

WSJ Pro Private Equity asked a handful of placement agent executives to share their insights into the state of the fundraising market in the first half of 2019 and what kind of advice they would give to firms pitching funds for the first time.