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The sovereign fund is bolstering its exposure to private equity and other private assets following several years of record cash inflows from oil revenues.

The indices are designed to address market participants’ demand for clarity around performance and volatility.

The fund has increased its secondaries budget to capture opportunities arising from market uncertainty, private equity head Yasuyuki Tomita tells PEI.

Many primary market LPs continue to be skeptical of continuation vehicles. But evergreen funds are already proving an all-but-insatiable source of demand for them. GPs will only be more incentivized to come to market, as a result.

In this episode of PEI's Private Equity Spotlight podcast, Tim Yates, Commonfund OCIO's president and CEO, discusses the three core principles private markets investors should consider before pausing capital deployments to PE.

All of Unigestion's $12.5bn PE AUM will be consolidated with Sagard's holdings following the deal.

Semi-liquid fund structures allow private market exposures to link into model portfolios more easily, according to Johnathan Seeg, global co-head of BlackRock Private Equity Partners.

The fund is expected to wrap up in December of this year.