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The firm has increasingly been raising capital from separate mandates and from individual investors via evergreen products.

AlpInvest chair Ruulke Bagijn and global head of primaries Wendy Zhu tell PEI that the Carlyle secondaries unit is seeing higher quality LP-led opportunities come to market.

In this podcast, PEI's Adam Le, Hannah Zhang and Alex Lynn discuss which firms made this year's ranking and what this says about the state of private equity fundraising.

LPs include Mubadala Investment Co, tech investor Yuri Milner, Bolt Ventures, Boxfish Corp, Ferguson Capital II, Lakefield Enterprises III, NJF Capital Corp and RIT Capital Partners.

Separately managed accounts create 'solutions for headaches that people have', AltamarCAM CEO José Luis Molina tells PEI.

The firm has set a €400m hard-cap for ArchiMed MED Rise, according to documents prepared by a US pension.

The Wallenberg Foundations-related investment office is led by ex-Skandia PE exec Daniel Winther and aims to quadruple its net assets within five years.

The firm plans to launch its Core Private Equity product this year and will invest via secondaries, according to CIO and CEO Beno​ît Durteste.

Tassilo Arnhold and Nassim Cherchali became co-managing partners at the financial services-focused firm last year in a management restructure.

CalPERS has a $100bn allocation to climate solutions – and is looking at its existing investment partners for climate-related opportunities – while APG has a domestic Dutch programme for transitioning local businesses.