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Along with the $50bn targeted for private equity over 2026-28, Carlyle aims to bring in more than $90bn for global credit strategies and more than $60bn for Carlyle AlpInvest, its secondaries platform.

“We have sent significant capital back to our investors over the last two to three years, and as you can imagine, it was very well-received given the liquidity-starved environment many LPs have highlighted,” said Neil White, the firm’s president and managing partner.

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.

Celebrating excellence in an ever-growing PE market.

Even with distributions to LPs remaining slow, it is possible to get large sponsor exits over the line, says Hellman & Friedman CEO Patrick Healy.

Now that multiple arbitrage is a thing of the past, PE firms must embrace complexity in order to deliver returns, says American Securities senior partner Kevin Penn.

Democratisation and the growing secondaries market have played a key role in making private equity a much broader asset class, Hollow Brook president Philip Richter tells PEI.