PEI Group Data

EQT Private Capital Asia returned $14bn to investors in 2025 alone, deputy co-head of private capital Asia Hari Gopalakrishnan tells PEI.

Our analysis this week of PEI Group performance data shows it's not all doom and gloom for software-focused funds, though the AI disruption threat is very real.

Software funds from the likes of Vista, Insight and PSG are largely outperforming or matching their vintage cohorts, despite concerns over returns in this sector.

The software giant will run off its Growth Fund and will not raise another vehicle for the strategy, with the two co-heads of its growth business having left the firm, PEI has learned.

Fundraising timelines averaged about 14 months in the first quarter, the shortest since 2022. An early sign of improving fundraising conditions?

Nearly half of the private equity funds that closed in the first quarter met their fundraising targets – the highest proportion in at least five years.

In the first episode of PEI’s new podcast miniseries, we unpack the key findings from our latest LP Perspectives study, revealing how investor priorities are changing.

KKR North America Fund XIV will build on the firm's history of implementing employee ownership programmes in its portfolio companies.

A wealth manager dismisses evergreens as 'weapons of mass destruction'; what LPs are seeking from emerging managers in 2026; UK LPs face ongoing confusion over climate change.

Exits and liquidity pressures, growing mid-market opportunities and the rise of evergreen capital are reshaping how LPs are approaching private equity investing.