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Jessica Hamlin

Senior Funds Columnist

Senior funds columnist Jessica Hamlin writes about limited partners for PitchBook News, based in New York. Jessica is also the lead writer of the Capital Pool weekly newsletter. Previously she wrote about private equity for Institutional Investor in New York. Jessica is a graduate of the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia.

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Articles by Jessica  Hamlin

Do GP valuations hold up? Check the secondary market

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Some LPs are using secondary-market pricing to assess the accuracy of managers’ reporting, then using it to decide on who to back.
October 12, 2026

Liquidity, private credit and the regulatory environment keep LPs up at night

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Three takeaways from the 2026 Greenwich Economic Forum, an annual gathering of fund managers, institutional investors and corporate executives in Greenwich, CT.
October 9, 2026

LPs should take account of GPs’ words, not just the numbers

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New research finds that negative sentiment in investor letters, particularly about macro conditions, is the strongest early warning sign of weak returns.
October 5, 2026

LPs that want out of software are finally finding buyers

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Sellers are increasingly willing to cut their losses, while buyers’ appetite for risk is starting to return.
October 1, 2026

The ex-CEO of Canada’s largest pension fund is now investing in ‘AI-pilled’ startups

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Intrepid Growth Partners, founded by former head of CPP Investments Mark Machin, has raised a $525M fund to back businesses outside of Silicon Valley.
September 28, 2026

Texas Teachers’ CIO warns AI capex boom echoes past busts

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Though Jase Auby is optimistic that AI development will look more like the US highway buildout than the collapse of the railroads.
September 21, 2026

How Alpine and Shore Capital build CEOs instead of hiring them

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Inside two PE executive training programs that take an unorthodox approach to finding leadership talent.
September 17, 2026

Four charts: Private capital fundraising remains bleak through H1 2026

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Fundraising is on pace to decline for the fifth consecutive year, with private credit the sole bright spot, PitchBook data shows.
September 14, 2026

Family offices are winning over PE’s rising talent

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Earlier opportunities to collect carried interest and a better work-life balance are pulling junior talent away from traditional private equity jobs.
September 3, 2026

KKR’s ‘Berkshire Hathaway’ strategy bears fruit with $17B USI sale

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USI Insurance Services was the oldest investment in a portfolio of direct investments that the investment manager could own ‘forever.’
August 31, 2026