Pensions

Celebrating the winners of the PEI Awards 2025; global GPs are assessing Middle East implications; LPs are struggling to 'meet the moment'; rampant secondaries dealmaking is slowing the growth of dry powder.

In this seven-minute video, Stefan Fällgren, head of private equity and infrastructure, says selecting a GP who has a strategy that can outperform over a long time period is crucial.

The flood of private wealth into private equity has raised major concerns among traditional institutional sources of capital.

The pension will look to increase its exposure to both the European market and secondaries in 2026.

The pension giant aims to deploy about C$20bn into private equity this year, global head of PE Caitlin Gubbels tells PEI.

There are reasons for optimism when it comes to private equity returns and the challenges to LP-GP alignment.

In a keynote address at NEXUS 2026, Marcie Frost made known for the first time that CalPERS’ resurgent PE programme requires some level of 'independence' from the pension's new total portfolio approach.

More visibility on portfolio company data will help the $613.7bn US pension better manage its risk, according to CEO Marcie Frost.

Joined by global peers, Mike Lazorik of Texas TRS tells delegates at PEI Group's NEXUS 2026 event that LP-GP alignment ‘has never been more complicated.’

Newmarch, formerly global head of private equity at the superfund, will step up to the newly created role of head of private markets and will report to CIO Simon Warner.