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  • Real estate secondaries has room to grow
    Private Equity News & AnalysisSilas Sloan- 1 September 2025

    Pricing in real estate secondaries remains challenging, with some assets seeing discounts upwards of 50% of NAV.

  • Side Letter: What's in a securitisation?
    Private Equity News & AnalysisPEI Staff- 13 August 2025

    Carlyle AlpInvest breaks down the motivations and machinations behind its milestone CFO. Plus: India is becoming an increasingly important destination for secondaries; and what's needed to launch an evergreen. Here's today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.

  • Side Letter: KKR's target-date trajectory
    Private Equity News & AnalysisPEI Staff- 4 August 2025

    KKR has tempered expectations around the speed at which private markets firms will unlock 401(k) capital at scale. Plus: Ares looks set to close its latest buyout fund at just over half the size of its predecessor. Here's today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.

  • Listed PE finds hope in secondaries
    CommentaryAlex Lynn- 31 July 2025

    Steep discounts to NAV and a slowdown in exits have likely contributed to a rash of secondaries processes involving listed PE trusts.

  • LPs question GPs on rise of semi-liquids and potential conflicts with funds
    Private Equity News & AnalysisChris Witkowsky- 10 July 2025

    The subject has taken priority at recent meetings of trade group Institutional Limited Partners Association, sources tell PEI.

  • Side Letter: Evergreen shock absorbers
    Private Equity News & AnalysisStaff Writer- 16 June 2025

    A Swiss private bank corroborates claims that individual investors weren't spooked by April's tariff turmoil. Plus: PSP Investments slashes its private equity allocation. Here's today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.

  • Anything but a CV?
    CommentaryAlex Lynn, Adam Le- 5 June 2025

    Recent survey findings underscore the importance for GPs to explore multiple paths to liquidity before settling upon a continuation fund process.

  • Ex-CalPERS' Musicco: Evergreen funds will change LP-GP dynamics
    Private Equity News & AnalysisHannah Zhang- 13 May 2025

    The transactional nature of semi-liquid fund structures can place a lower importance on relationship building between investors and their managers, says Nicole Musicco.

  • Volatility a trial by fire for PE’s evergreen community
    CommentaryAlex Lynn- 8 May 2025

    Tariff turmoil could battle test the resolve of individual investors and their suitability for the burgeoning community of semi-liquid private markets funds.

  • Ares eyes summer close for latest corporate opportunities fund
    Private Equity News & AnalysisSilas Sloan- 7 May 2025

    Fund VII, which has an undisclosed target, held its most recent interim close on $1.79bn in November, PEI data shows.