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In secondaries, scale doesn’t necessarily impact the nature of the companies you buy – but it can provide a powerful competitive advantage when it comes to transacting on large LP portfolios, says Michael Skelly, a partner at Lexington Partners.

As sports investing matures, investors are increasing their focus on differentiation and diversification, say Fried Frank’s Stephen Amdur and Randi Lally.

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.

Secondaries activity is showing no signs of a slowdown despite an uneven first half, say Leor Landa, head of investment management, and Michael Brasher, counsel in the investment management practice, at Davis Polk.

SEC priorities may be shifting, but recent enforcement action points to continued scrutiny of managers, says McDermott Will & Schulte’s Marc Elovitz.

Disruption Matters season five delves into how private fund managers are orchestrating profitable realizations in an era defined by turbulence, uncertainty and shrinking routes to attractive IRRs.

Secondaries have become a central tenet of private equity, as sponsors increasingly turn to bespoke solutions to manage liquidity across the portfolio lifecycle, say W Capital Partners’ David Wachter and Todd Miller.