Private Equity

NEXUS 2025

Overperformance still driving PE decisions for LPs

Manager selection has become a critical point for LPs including Alaska Permanent and CPP Investments as they continue to focus on the asset class's ability to deliver alpha.

3 min read · 17 March 2025

Ardian’s Vlad Colas on the rise of first-time sellers as LPs seek liquidity

The education and experience of new sellers will help grow the LP side of the industry, according to Vlad Colas, executive vice president of Ardian, who spoke with Buyouts at PEI Group’s NEXUS 2025 event in Orlando in early March.

2 min read · 17 March 2025

CalPERS' Orlich: PE portfolio will remain largely unchanged under TPA

In this 7-minute video from NEXUS 2025, the pension’s head of private equity discusses the impact of its planned total portfolio approach on its holdings and managers.

1 min read · 17 March 2025

NEXUS panelists: LPs sticking to core strengths in PE amid uncertainty

PE strategies haven’t deviated significantly as a reaction to geopolitics or market conditions, according to a trio of LPs who spoke at a NEXUS 2025 panel.

3 min read · 14 March 2025

Mid-market firms need a 'right to win.' But most will fail: Ian Charles

General partners facing a bifurcated future for private equity need to think hard about what 'partnership' really means. 'If you're playing the old game, you're going to lose,' secondaries legend Ian Charles told NEXUS attendees.

4 min read · 14 March 2025

On a ring and a prayer: notes from NEXUS 2025

Talk of disruption and dislocation amid a turbulent new US administration reigned supreme.

4 min read · 13 March 2025

Side Letter: NEXUS 2025 dispatches – final day

The world has become quite a bit more complicated this week, as our NEXUS conference heard. Plus: Korea's largest public pension is adopting a more flexible approach to alternatives; and the sub line market is making a roaring return. Here's today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.

4 min read · 13 March 2025

‘This will not be the last time that we sell’ – NYCRS‘ Kadziela

Four out of NYCRS’ five pension systems are selling a more than $5.5bn portfolio to Blackstone Strategic Partners in a deal set to close at the end of March.

2 min read · 13 March 2025

Lazard secondaries head sees record-breaking wave of dealflow in Q1

LPs and GPs alike are finding secondaries technology 'extremely beneficial', Holcombe Green said at PEI Group's NEXUS 2025 conference in Orlando this week.

1 min read · 12 March 2025

Orlando Bravo: ‘The best PE firms are built around moments of dislocation like this’

The Thoma Bravo co-founder and managing partner spoke with PE Hub's Mary Kathleen (MK) Flynn at PEI Group’s NEXUS 2025 summit.

2 min read · 12 March 2025

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