All Private Equity articles
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White papersClimate investing in a constrained world
How structural bottlenecks are expanding the opportunity beyond cleantech to modernize systems running the physical economy.
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White papersWhat unicorns reveal about future investment risk
Private market investments are now a mainstay of institutional portfolios. Yet while allocations have grown, the information available to investors has not kept pace.
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VideoNAV Loans: From Fund Finance to Investment Opportunity
Net asset value (NAV) loans may offer solutions for private equity and benefits for insurers.
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White papersMarkets look past the noise
The investment environment in 2026 continues to be shaped by geopolitical uncertainty, evolving inflation dynamics and the accelerating impact of artificial intelligence (AI). Renewed tensions in the Middle East have reintroduced inflation risks through higher energy prices, while AI-related spending is creating upward pressure on inflation in some sectors. As a result, central banks are expected to maintain restrictive policy settings for longer than previously anticipated.
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VideoNeuberger Private Markets: Q2 2026 Preliminary Valuation Summary & Analysis
Doug Manor, Managing Director, Neuberger Private Markets, provides an overview of private equity markets and an outlook based on trends in the marketplace.
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White papersHarvesting the Valuation Gap: The Strategic Role of Crossover Equity
Promising companies are choosing to fund their explosive growth in the private markets, creating a potentially attractive arbitrage for experienced “crossover equity” investors.
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Asset Manager NewsHidden Hill Capital Invests in CorePilot with Strategic Support from HKIC
Shanghai and Singapore, 25 August 2026 – GLP’s Hidden Hill Capital (“Hidden Hill”) in its capacity as general partner (GP) and fund manager of its growth investment focused limited partnership fund (LPF) with the Hong Kong Investment Corporation (HKIC), has completed an investment in CorePilot (启芯领航), a leading China-based Electronic Design Automation (EDA) company headquartered in Shanghai.
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PodcastOuterblue Talks Research - The Lifecycle Remix - How the Glidepath Fits into Retirement Solutions
Retirement investing is changing as individuals take on more responsibility for their long-term outcomes, especially in defined contribution pension plans and personal savings. In this episode of Outerblue Talks Research, host Swaha Pattanaik speaks with Dominic Byrne, Global Head of Retirement Solutions at Amundi, about how lifecycle investing is evolving to include glidepath strategies.
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White papersManaging private asset allocations in open-ended funds Gilles-David
With their potential to enhance returns, diversify portfolios and capture an illiquidity premium, private assets have become increasingly attractive to institutional investors. Yet integrating private equity and private debt into open-ended funds available to retail clients remains far from straightforward. Even though a fund may offer investors periodic subscriptions and redemptions, the underlying private assets generate cash only gradually and with uncertain frequency. They also require liquidity to meet unpredictable capital calls.
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White papersCutting through the noise: Why lower and core middle market direct lending still delivers value in clients’ portfolios
Private credit has become one of the most discussed corners of institutional investing — and one of the most misunderstood. Daily headlines about troubled borrowers, struggling business development companies (BDCs), redemption pressure, and concentrated software exposure have created the impression of a market under stress. But beneath the noise, the lower and core middle market direct lending segment that has historically powered investor outcomes is performing well, behaving as designed, and, in our view, is about to deliver one of its most attractive vintages in years.
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White papersLooking beyond mega-caps
AI-focused capital flows are reshaping private markets, concentrating capital, and creating consensus exposure. We believe this dynamic has contributed to a growing divide between large-and mega-cap (predominantly) AI companies and perhaps overlooked small- and mid-cap opportunities often found in sectors outside of AI.
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White papersFrom invention to investment: The case for UK venture capital
Britain is one of the world’s great originators of ideas, yet too many of its most promising companies have had to look abroad for the capital to grow. Institutional investors have a rare chance to fund the next stage of that growth story and capture compelling long-run return streams.
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White papersPrivate Equity: Distributions Are Bouncing Back
Global private equity exits are on track for yet another robust year, potentially extending the year-on-year recovery in divestment activity and investor distributions since 2024. While sales to strategic or corporate buyers and sponsor to sponsor deals continue to dominate…
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White papersPrivate Credit: An Emerging Silver Lining
Careful deal selection and attention to risk can help investors capitalize on recent market turbulence.
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White papersOpen for business: Evergreens and the transformation of access to private markets
Until recently, investing in private markets meant accepting a deal: hand over your capital, wait several years, repeat. Evergreen vehicles offer a more efficient option.
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PodcastConnecting the Dots: CIO Mid-Year Outlook. Adapting to the new investment landscape
From the evolving AI story to an inflationary backdrop, M&G Investments’ CIOs dissect a complex market where traditional rules of investing appear to be breaking down. Find out where they see risks and opportunities across equities, fixed income and private markets, and why they emphasise the importance of selectivity, diversification and a more dynamic approach to asset allocation in the second half of 2026.
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White papersBeyond the pitch: private capital funds sports infrastructure and operations
The FIFA World Cup is underway, but the action for institutional investors is in the financing that underpins modern sports.
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White papersThe IPO market inflection
How a new cohort of large AI-driven companies could reshape liquidity and market structure
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White papersPrivate biotech investing deep dive
Private biotech sits apart from traditional venture capital and growth equity for three key reasons. First, the potential for value creation is driven by clinical inflection points (scientific derisking) instead of revenue growth or operating scale. Second, outcomes at key readouts are often binary rather than incremental, producing wider dispersion. Finally, as private biotech companies are generally pre-revenue, they remain capital-dependent throughout their life cycle.
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White papersElectric Power Offers Opportunity in AI—Without ‘Taking Sides’
Older electrical plants are a value play on the artificial intelligence boom.
