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Wafra CIO: GP stakes in Europe is an educational process

LPs want exposure to the mid-market, where there is differentiated alpha with many levers and ways to win, Adel Alderbas tells Private Equity International.

Consumer-focused PE firms navigate US tariff uncertainty

Managers weigh in on the private equity playbook amid a more protectionist US trade policy.

Roundtable: The power of co-investment

A co-investing strategy can boost portfolio performance for investors while allowing GPs to get deals done in a challenging market.

Verdane closes on €2bn hard-cap for latest flagship

Nearly a quarter of capital commitments for Freya XII came from US investors.

LPs are paying more attention to GPs’ inflows from wealth and retail – panel

Constantly raising capital and deploying quickly may shift managers’ attitudes toward deal activity, according to executives from Ardian, ICG and Neuberger Berman.

Blackstone co-CIO: Private equity essential to deploying retail capital

Firms need to offer enough products to individual investors to match supply and demand, says Lionel Assant.

Sagard's Unigestion PE acquisition is latest in industry consolidation trend

All of Unigestion's $12.5bn PE AUM will be consolidated with Sagard's holdings following the deal.

BlackRock PE co-head: Semi-liquids could facilitate model portfolio adoption

Semi-liquid fund structures allow private market exposures to link into model portfolios more easily, according to Johnathan Seeg, global co-head of BlackRock Private Equity Partners.

LPs are becoming more sophisticated in fund finance – FFA conference

Real dialogue between LPs and GPs, visibility on team and track record and access to information on the use of financing tools are vital, according to panellists at the European Fund Finance Symposium.

Public-private partnerships: Who’s tied up with whom?

PGIM and Partners Group became the latest firms this week to disclose partnerships amid a trend of traditional asset managers and private markets specialists partnering to tap more non-institutional capital.