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Managers are focusing on optimising their exit readiness and getting the equity story right as tariffs add more complexity to sales processes, according to panellists at PEI’s Operating Partners Forum Europe.

Private equity investors largely believe dealmaking activity will increase this year, which will in turn boost exits and distributions.

The Canada Growth Fund, CDPQ, Investissement Québec and BDC Capital have announced a combined $145m commitment to MKB Partners Fund III.

Martin Longchamps, head of private equity at the $319bn Canadian giant, talks to PEI about secondaries sales, overallocation and what steps the institution plans to take next.

Inside: CDPQ’s head of private equity on what the Canadian pension plans to do next; The Global Investor 150 – our expanded ranking of the industry’s biggest private equity investors; India’s LP behemoth; Plus much more…

Canada’s second-largest pension fund has been actively deploying to mid-market managers across North America, Europe and Asia.

Smaller managers are under pressure to commit to their own funds as LPs seek stability in a volatile market.

CalPERS pumped roughly half of its private equity budget into co-investments last year. Plus: why VC's loss could be the mid-market's gain; and CDPQ makes a statement hire in India. Here's today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.

Between them, the 10 largest investors on this year’s Global Investor 150 ranking have $1.1trn allocated to private equity, with an average allocation of 21%.

Even amid market turbulence and fears over returns, the LPs on the 2026 Global Investor 150 ranking show strong conviction in the asset class.

Canadian fundraising slumped in 2025, though it was a record year for private equity investment in the country.

In today's edition, Blue Owl's recent asset sale has thrust semi-liquids into the spotlight; Partners Group tries to assuage investors' AI concerns; Gridiron Capital is back in the market.

A rumoured use for NAV loans is proving difficult to pin down. Plus: Dispatches from Asia's emerging fund finance market; and LP-leds have HNWIs spooked. Here's today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.

After an era of exuberance, expansion and ‘rockstar’ roles, sustainability in private markets is being more closely tethered to value creation.

The pension is launching a private market investment programme targeting co-underwrites, syndicated co-investments, secondaries and growth capital investments.

India’s private equity market is seeing record fundraises and a shift to buyout transactions.