KKR

The Keystone strategy is expected to remain relevant across fundraising cycles, managing partner Ian Charles and partner Charlie Tingue tell PEI.

KKR North America Fund XIV will build on the firm's history of implementing employee ownership programmes in its portfolio companies.

'We really like the idea of building a secondary platform with a blank sheet of paper,' KKR CFO Rob Lewin said on the firm’s Q4 2025 earnings call.

Japan is KKR’s second-largest private equity investment destination, with India also in the top four, co-chief Joseph Bae told an HKMA event in Hong Kong.

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.

KKR-owned Colonial First State, which manages one of Australia’s 10-largest superfunds, will make its inaugural private equity allocation this month, PE head Chloé Brayne tells PEI.

Deal and exit data points to a split between those at the top and their smaller peers. Plus: KKR closes its first domestic China fund; and APG is taking another stab at the secondaries market. Here's today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.

The firm's last regional flagship – the 2021-vintage KKR Asian Fund IV – is the largest pan-Asian buyout fund to date.

PE funds raised $702bn between Q1 and Q3 2026, around $101bn or 17% more than the same period in 2025.

We put a spotlight on the women shaping the private markets landscape.

Senior wealth and asset management executives weigh in on the importance of liquidity management, investor alignment and scale in evergreen funds distribution at an industry conference in Paris.

For first-time managers, AI tools are a chance to leapfrog legacy systems and larger rivals.

The $37bn investment arm of Denmark’s Novo Nordisk Foundation is building a roster of homegrown GPs in Asia and growing its regional headcount, says managing partner Amit Kakar.

Investors expect the number of tail-end vehicles still holding assets to rise amid ongoing liquidity pressures and difficulties in GPs differentiating themselves.

Year-on-year growth is back on track after last year’s fundraising flatline, though the nature of this growth has shifted.

Evergreen funds account for about 5% of private markets NAV today, a figure that is expected to grow in the long term.