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Deal-level benchmarks are transforming private market analysis, unlocking significant benefits for LPs, GPs and service providers, says StepStone Group partner and chief technology officer Tyler Johnson.

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.

The financial adviser’s white paper indicates that higher returns and only moderate risk await LPs who take the plunge into Fund Is.

With no shortage of LPs and GPs turning to the secondaries market for capital solutions, there are hopes for a ‘decade of capitalization’ to keep driving growth.

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.

Much of the conversation around PennSERS’ private equity portfolio is indicative of the dramatic shift in the state of the private markets over the last five years.

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.

Secondaries activity continues to grow as the market gets to grip with macro headwinds, LP concerns and competition for talent.

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

Brey Jones and John McGuinness have formed Thirdpath, an advisory shop focused on constructing customized private equity and private credit portfolios for institutions.