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Capital Pool

Growing zombification presents secondary market opportunity

August 17, 2026

As distributions stall, LPs are weighing steep discounts on the secondary market against the cost of staying put.

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Private Equity

The zombie fund problem is getting worse

August 17, 2026

Rebounding M&A and AI mania have not reversed the slide into irrelevance for many PE fund managers, according to new data from PitchBook.

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Capital Pool

You don’t need to be a big fish to co-invest

August 10, 2026

There are ways for smaller LPs to get in on the no-fee investment action.

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Capital Pool

The fund families LPs are fighting to get into

August 3, 2026

PitchBook’s newest fund scorecard puts a Dallas-based lower-mid-market shop ahead of Thoma Bravo, GTCR and Francisco Partners.

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Limited Partners

Bain and Carlyle battle for $7B Wealth Enhancement Group

July 27, 2026

It’s the latest sign of PE’s appetite for wealth managers, though questions persist about the sustainability of the sector’s growth.

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Capital Pool

Big PE managers underperform, and here is data to prove it

July 27, 2026

The largest LPs keep writing checks to managers that can’t beat their smaller peers—and will probably continue to do so

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Capital Pool

CPP’s benchmark change draws ire of critics

July 20, 2026

The Canadian pension manager has changed the way it measures performance and how it compensates its employees.

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Buyouts

Middle-market Davids are outslinging PE’s Goliaths

July 20, 2026

The largest buyout funds are underperforming their smaller peers, and the reasons run deeper than luck.

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Limited Partners

Databricks’ 40% valuation bump looks ‘almost quaint’ next to Anthropic

July 17, 2026

The data analytics company is now valued at $188 billion, but it’s trailing behind rivals like Anthropic, whose valuation more than doubled in a quarter.

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Public-Private Convergence

Big enough for its own fund-of-funds: Inside one wealth manager’s own vehicle

July 17, 2026

Mercer Advisors’ CIO views the firm’s $100 million Aspen Partners platform as a model for the industry to follow.

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Infrastructure

Why Seraya Partners is betting where Asia’s infrastructure giants aren’t

July 15, 2026

The Singapore investment firm is building energy transition and digital infrastructure businesses from scratch.

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Private Equity

Independent sponsors are beating the buyout funds

July 14, 2026

The first large-scale study pegs median returns for fundless sponsors at 23.8%, as Washington quietly opens the spigot to new money.

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Capital Pool

Universities’ dwindling financial positions place pressure on endowments

July 13, 2026

Slipping credit outlooks for Brown and Columbia reflect monetary constraints on top-tier higher education, and endowments are ill-prepared to help.

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Public-Private Convergence

Private wealth funds ditch the middleman for more alternatives exposure

July 10, 2026

Managers for the ultra-wealthy set up their own institutional-grade fund vehicles to ‘get a seat at the table’.

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Limited Partners

Bending Spoons, owner of a collection of ailing internet brands, soars in Nasdaq IPO

July 1, 2026

The company’s stock closed 39.7% above its IPO price of $29 per share.

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Limited Partners

Comcast split could drive deals, though not necessarily for PE

June 29, 2026

The largest deals in the media sector have been dominated by corporate buyers, with PE firms preferring to play on the fringes, PitchBook data shows.

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Private Equity

PE’s biggest skeptic pokes holes in ‘useless’ IRR

June 22, 2026

Ludovic Phalippou says the performance metric doesn’t actually tell LPs anything.

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Capital Pool

Canada pension’s new PE head shakes up continuation fund formula

June 15, 2026

Jon Salon wants to buy into fund rollovers out of British Columbia Investment Management’s own GPs—and others.

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