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The private equity model isn’t broken, but the illusion of uniform success is, writes Scott Hart, partner and chief executive at StepStone Group.

Individual investors are increasingly being provided with institutional-quality access to private markets, say Brett Schlemovitz, partner and president of StepStone Private Wealth, and Miguel Sosa, managing director at StepStone.

Ensuring capital is effectively deployed while also meeting investors’ liquidity demands is a challenge that requires expertise and scale, say StepStone Group’s Neil Menard and Miguel Sosa.

New investor types and changing LP needs are driving demand for more granular, timely data and benchmarking tools, say FTSE Russell’s Gerald Toledano and Ali Zaidi, and StepStone Group’s Tom Keck.

Why one LP reckons private equity participants are too concerned about downside protection. Plus: secondaries firms have differing approaches to risk management; and StepStone joins the dedicated GP-led arena. Here's today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.

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

As financial advisers better understand the fundamental benefits of investing in the private markets, they are focusing on portfolio construction and implementation, says Bob Long, CEO of StepStone Private Wealth.

Los Angeles Water & Power Employees Retirement Plan received a private equity pacing plan recommendation from its investment consultant Stepstone Group.

AI is well on its way to reshaping how LPs evaluate PE funds, but as the technology becomes increasingly widespread, it’s data quality and human judgment that are emerging as key factors.

Evercore and HEC Paris’s fifth continuation vehicle performance study found that top-performing CVs tend to best their buyout peers.

China’s private equity reset could yield a more disciplined opportunity set for LPs who retain conviction in the market.

Our latest ranking of the industry’s biggest fundraisers serves as a reminder that there’s more to the state of play than meets the eye.

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

Meet the up-and-coming dealmakers featured in our Future 40 list for 2026.

Global capital is pouring into Japan, yet fundraising data reveals a more uneven picture as domestic constraints and cyclical dynamics reshape the market.

GP-led deal volume hit an all-time high in 2025, but record growth doesn’t necessarily equate to LP satisfaction with continuation vehicle processes.