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AI’s rapid development offers new avenues for creating value in portfolio companies, but deploying the tools successfully will require judicious experimentation and consistent investment, say Montagu’s Christoph Leitner-Dietmaier and Dr Mark Spiteri.

Sponsors are thinking outside of the box to find pockets of capital and get deals over the line, say Jack Orford and Robert Smith, sponsor finance partners at Davis Polk & Wardwell.

As competition for assets increases, investors are getting creative in identifying value, say Deloitte’s Ryan Jones and Nick Israni.

With booming fundraising requiring ever larger commitments, institutional capital is now often essential, write Michael Hubbard, Samantha Hutchinson and Mathan Navaratnam at King & Spalding

Technology and payments are undergoing rapid shifts, creating attractive investment opportunities, say Nordic Capital’s Mohit Agnihotri and Fredrik Näslund.

Decarbonisation and regenerative agriculture strategies are about more than tackling climate change, they are about creating long-term sustainable value, says Lindee Wong, director of climate and biodiversity at Tikehau Capital

The industry is on the cusp of significant innovation, ranging from capital relief structures to securitisation, say SMBC’s Sammy Asoli, Stuart McIntosh and William Wallace

Fund finance will have a key role to play in addressing the capital overhang ratio within the secondaries market, writes Ian Wiese, portfolio manager at Barings Portfolio Finance

As regulation proliferates, GPs are increasingly turning to scenario analysis and taking a more integrated approach to sustainability and impact considerations, say KPMG’s Elizabeth Ming and Simon Weaver

Demand for fund financing solutions has increased and become more complex, according to Jill Wilson, Edward Fry and Varun Sarda at Lloyds Bank Corporate & Institutional