Private Equity
The SEC wants to scrap its ‘pay-to-play’ rule. Fund managers should carefully reckon with the costs of free speech.
4 min read · 17 September 2026
Endowments and foundations using outsourced investment offices increasingly view GP-led secondaries as a way to deploy capital more quickly into private markets, prioritizing performance opportunities over liquidity concerns.
5 min read · 11 September 2026
Until the PE exit environment improves, (unnaturally) long life funds will continue to multiply.
3 min read · 10 September 2026
GPs must ensure portfolio company boards can answer diligence questions cleanly and quickly at a moment's notice, writes PwC partner Gregory Bournet.
4 min read · 08 September 2026
A federal fraud crackdown is a new front in America’s healthcare wars. Private fund managers have sounded the retreat, PEI data shows.
6 min read · 08 September 2026
Playing in the lucrative sports and entertainment sector comes with additional challenges.
2 min read · 03 September 2026
The secondaries market offers a solution to PE’s liquidity dearth. Is that enough to drive volumes to $1trn in four years?
3 min read · 27 August 2026
Transparency is becoming table stakes in a market defined by greater risk and increased regulatory scrutiny.
3 min read · 20 August 2026
Examiners ask about funds by name in opening requests. Enforcement has picked up the scent, too, affiliate title Private Funds CFO has learned.
5 min read · 14 August 2026
Here’s how six key areas of private equity market have developed so far this year, and what might happen next.
4 min read · 13 August 2026
