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Amid a slow M&A and IPO market, GP-led transaction volume grew by more than 50% last year. And according to PJT Partners’ Johanna Lottmann and Nicholas Lyons, that’s unlikely to change, even as traditional exits pick up.

Hugh MacArthur, Bain & Company’s global private equity practice chairman, describes how the business of private equity is fundamentally changing.

Initiatives to boost workforce diversity, motivation and happiness can pay dividends for investors, explain NSSK’s Jun Tsusaka, Kiyomi Matsuda and Kurama Sato.

The private equity ownership model is ideally suited to driving change and building more sustainable companies, says Nordic Capital’s Elin Ljung.

2025 is the year investors will be compelled to deliver on sustainability, beginning with putting robust governance structures in place, says General Atlantic’s Cornelia Gomez.

Emerging managers should not be surprised when they are expected to provide reporting and transparency on a par with larger competitors, writes Jeff Gendel, principal at Gen II Fund Services.

After another busy year in the secondaries market, demand for capital solutions shows no signs of abating as both GPs and LPs navigate a shifting market backdrop.

Evergreen fund managers need scale and advanced analytics to balance risk/return with duration and meet investors’ liquidity demands, say StepStone Private Wealth’s Bob Long and Neil Menard.

There are whole swathes of the economy that simply cannot be accessed through public market investment today, thereby boosting private markets’ appeal, says Schroders Capital’s Tim Boole.

GP stakes investing aims to offer investors cashflow and diversification in uncertain times, says Blue Owl Capital senior managing director Sean Ward.