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The changes come as Blue Sea, formed by Richard Wandoff and James R Davis Jr, targets $550m for its fourth fund, Buyouts previously reported.

Fund VI’s target size marks a 25% increase from its predecessor, which closed in 2024 with $600m of capital.

KCGI Private Equity is expected to launch Fund II in 2027, managing director Taeyoung Chung tells PEI.

Promoted to IMCO’s head of private equity in 2024, Elia believes that after roughly five-plus years of outsized growth the PE program is now ‘entering a more mature phase.’

Buyouts’ 2026 list of the biggest North American LPs finds plenty of familiar faces committing $1.5trn to the asset class, up 6.3% from a year earlier.

The value of the strategy is being debated as a tool to be used during an unprecedented slowdown in the private markets.

The rapid growth of the secondaries market has led to suggestions that it could see transaction volumes of $500bn – or even $1trn – by 2030. Just four years out from this deadline, are such predictions realistic?

While a handful of pan-Asian mega-funds are soaking up the majority of LP interest, some argue that local mid-market champions are most likely to deliver outsized returns for investors in Asia-Pacific.

A move from quarterly to semiannual reporting could leave PE firms with older public comparables and greater uncertainty.

Buyouts checked back with some members of our inaugural list of Women in PE to see how their careers are evolving and ask what their advice would be for the next generation of leaders.