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GPs have to generate more cashflow and up their value creation game to make deals work, according to Bain & Co's Global Private Equity Report 2026.

Clients need to have options and managers need to provide them with more opportunities for deployment, Thomas de Villeneuve, CEO of Seven2 – formerly Apax France – tells PEI.

In today's edition, How Germany's nuclear waste management fund maintains stability; Private equity exposure could be impacting SBCERA's near-term returns; Vitruvian is running an unconventional secondaries process.

The €24bn investor has no future inflows and has an approach to private equity based almost entirely on outperformance, head of investment management Verena Kempe tells PEI.

The €27bn retirement fund is more relaxed about investments in private equity than infrastructure in the US, says head of private capital and real assets Jeppe Starup.

Schroders Capital, the private capital arm of Schroders, manages more than $25bn in private equity assets.

Heightened volatility in public markets could speed up the adoption of the total portfolio approach among institutions, Marc Rowan has said.

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Several senior executives have left the UK life insurer ahead of its imminent rebranding as Standard Life, affiliate title Private Debt Investor has learned.

Oversight of the firm's four remaining assets and the wind-down process is expected to fall to two members of the firm’s management team.