In this week's Private Equity Digest, DealMarket takes a look at an analysts view of why big buyouts lack luster, an emerging markets dealflow update, as well as the latest figures from Go4Venture and all the latest industry news.

This report for Quarter 1 2013 by Kevin Arenson, Chief Investment Officer at Stenham, includes a market and economic review for the first three months of the year, a review of the Stenham multi-strategy portfolios and an outlook for the next quarter.

In this issue of DealMarket's digest: a look at the buyout of China's Focus Media, location-based advertising, and all that latest industry news.

Preqin’s April edition of Hedge Fund Spotlight reveals that long/short hedge funds outperformed all other strategies in Q1 2013. Long/short equity is also the most commonly sought-after single strategy by institutional investors, with 43% of investors that are planning on making new allocations to hedge funds in the next 12 months favouring this strategy.

In this edition of the digest: a look at what happens when deals are leaked and clean energy investment trends, as well as US angel investment news and European M&A dealmaking in 2013.