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Sponsors need to be realistic about price and commit incremental equity on top of a 100% rollover to stand out in today’s market, says Andrew Gulotta, a partner at Sixpoint Partners.

The compelling benefits of the GP-led market have fueled a 5x growth in depth and breadth, and that growth is only accelerating, say W Capital Partners’ David Wachter and Todd Miller.

Continued volatility is bringing many opportunities for secondaries players. The biggest risk is spreading yourself too thin, says Carlyle AlpInvest’s global head of secondaries, Chris Perriello.

Record deployment and fundraising headwinds are leading to limited dry powder, says Whitehorse Liquidity Partners managing partner Yann Robard.

With LPs looking to rebalance, the future of secondaries might look more like the past, with rewards for those GPs willing and able to take a back-to-basics approach, according to Steve Costabile, global head of private funds at PineBridge Investments.

Good data management can streamline operations, improve risk management and help firms differentiate themselves from their peers, says Sam Metland, executive vice-president and head of private equity product at Citco UK.

Private funds must rely on fund administrators now more than ever as the outsourcing landscape becomes increasingly fraught, write RSM US’s Christa Clark and Louis Crasto.

Maintaining a high level of transparency within a business represents a value-add proposition in the current PE environment, say Apex Group’s Agnes Mazurek and Georges Archibald.

Firms that integrate advanced technologies into their investment decision-making processes will be better able to compete in the alternatives marketplace, says Alter Domus’s global head of data and analytics products, Gus Harris.

The days of a near exclusive focus on revenue expansion are over as the emphasis shifts to profitable growth, say Matthew Hobart and David Trujillo, co-managing partners at TPG Growth.