Thanks to the evolution of a robust private market ecosystem that includes private credit, secondaries and unprecedented amounts of capital, companies are growing bigger and staying private for longer than ever before. Nevertheless, the dream to go public is still very much alive.
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.
Blackstone uses a traffic light system to evaluate an asset's potential exposure to AI disruption risk, president Jon Gray told delegates at an HKMA event on Tuesday.
As the all-important 2030 deadline to limit global warming looms, are private markets on track to help meet the world’s critical climate needs?
After an era of exuberance, expansion and ‘rockstar’ roles, sustainability in private markets is being more closely tethered to value creation.
The Middle East and North Africa region has become increasingly attractive to managers as they attempt to tap its massive stock of sovereign wealth fund capital.
By appealing to retail and large institutional investors, mega-managers may end up with the lion’s share of capital, with implications for themselves and their investors, writes Cambridge Associates’ Andrea Auerbach.
Competition for capital is fierce, but new firm formation is poised to continue nonetheless.
Private markets M&A continues to gather pace as asset management mega-platforms attempt to meet all their investors’ needs.
The top force fuelling M&A among private markets managers is the ambition to become as relevant to private wealth and insurance money tomorrow as institutional capital today.