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Evercore and HEC Paris’s fifth continuation vehicle performance study found that top-performing CVs tend to best their buyout peers.

As sports investing matures, investors are increasing their focus on differentiation and diversification, say Fried Frank’s Stephen Amdur and Randi Lally.

The rapid growth of the secondaries market has led to suggestions that it could see transaction volumes of $500bn – or even $1trn – by 2030. Just four years out from this deadline, are such predictions realistic?

Scale has become a competitive edge in a rapidly expanding secondaries market.

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

Investors need to be comfortable with the KPIs a GP has been using and whether they can remain relevant.

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.

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