North America

More sectors are being unlocked as buyers slash their exposure targets.

Some US investors have concerns about valuations in the growing credit secondaries space.

US investors have pushed Blue Earth’s impact secondaries strategy forward, but an active secondaries market is still missing from impact.

A move from quarterly to semiannual reporting could leave PE firms with older public comparables and greater uncertainty.

The pension anticipates increasing its private equity allocation to a $1bn target by 2030, as it expects a growing influx of distributions over the next four years.

The pension will commit $263m to private equity across its plans in 2027, after doubling its pacing last year.

In today's edition, Foundations are hungry for more private equity; Why AI is rendering Warburg a banking bull; M&G's PE head is on the move.

Disclosed healthcare buyout value fell to $51bn in H1 2026 from around $60bn a year earlier, with pressures from AI disruption and the Iran war contributing to the slowdown.

In today's edition, A $62bn pension is seeking leverage for liquidity; A sovereign wealth fund's PE allocation falls to a nine-year low – with a catch; Chinese PE activity rebounds.

He replaces Geoffrey Geiger, who left USS last year. He will report to Ben Levenstein, head of private markets group, a spokesperson said.