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Private markets M&A continues to gather pace as asset management mega-platforms attempt to meet all their investors’ needs.

The top force fuelling M&A among private markets managers is the ambition to become as relevant to private wealth and insurance money tomorrow as institutional capital today.

For borrowers and their sponsors, SLLs are a direct way of ensuring ESG integration is a lever for financial value.

Ben Luckett, who set up Aviva's VC platform in 2015, says low distributed to paid-in ratios have been less of an issue for the investor to date due to the use of evergreen structures.

Nordic Capital's Fund XII intends to make equity investments between €250m and €1bn across four key sectors.

The firm appointed Benjamin Cordonnier as CEO and co-managing partner, and Judith Charpentier as co-managing partner in May.

The latest in our Private Markets 2030 series examines the challenges to raising non-institutional capital. Plus: Why secondaries returns are under greater pressure than ever before. Here's today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.

Private equity’s liquidity premium appears to be eroding at a faster rate than ever before. Plus: a UK pension giant is pumping more into PE; and a German LP gets a new CIO. Here's today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.

There is now proof of concept that institutional and retail products can successfully be managed side by side, say Davis Polk’s Andrew Ahern, Oran Ebel, Christopher Healey and Leor Landa.