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Some of private equity’s biggest investors including CalPERS, IMAS Foundation and Aware Super share their best book and podcast recommendations for summer 2026.

While the hot new portfolio model might not be for everyone, LPs may have to adapt or fall behind when it comes to total portfolio approach.

Carlyle Defense and Reindustrialization Partners was registered in June.

The pension fund has run a $4bn per year deficit and is hoping to remedy the cash drain with its new commitment plan.

Increased appetite from Institutional investors, access to liquidity and the proliferation of bespoke structures have accelerated change in fund finance, according to panellists at the European Fund Finance Symposium.

This marks the first cut the pension has made to the asset class's target in more than 15 years.

LPs are increasingly concerned about tail-end assets; Virginia's $134bn state pension system is worried about GP selection; Apax's new IR hire.

Investors expect the number of tail-end vehicles still holding assets to rise amid ongoing liquidity pressures and difficulties in GPs differentiating themselves.

Institutional investors are right to be increasingly curious about the best ways to evaluate their PE portfolio performance.

Clearlake's $14.8bn raise; what the 2026 FIFA World Cup could signal for sports investing; the evergreen market has doubled in size.