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The flood of private wealth into private equity has raised major concerns among traditional institutional sources of capital.

The manager, which has some $7bn in AUM, is now under the sole control of co-founder Adam Waglay.

Disruption in the public markets for tech and software companies is creating 'interesting opportunities' in private markets, co-founder and managing partner José Feliciano tells PE Hub editor-in-chief Mary Kathleen (MK) Flynn.

In today's edition, Four LPs share their 2026 commitment plans with NEXUS delegates; Why specialisation is key for emerging managers launching debut funds; A US buyout firm has closed its seventh flagship above target.

'Our portfolio meets the times,' Brian Bernasek, co-head of Americas corporate private equity at Carlyle, told Buyouts. 'We have assets that buyers want.'

The pension will look to increase its exposure to both the European market and secondaries in 2026.

The pension giant aims to deploy about C$20bn into private equity this year, global head of PE Caitlin Gubbels tells PEI.

There are reasons for optimism when it comes to private equity returns and the challenges to LP-GP alignment.

In a keynote address at NEXUS 2026, Marcie Frost made known for the first time that CalPERS’ resurgent PE programme requires some level of 'independence' from the pension's new total portfolio approach.

More visibility on portfolio company data will help the $613.7bn US pension better manage its risk, according to CEO Marcie Frost.