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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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  Sports

  University of Utah finalizes landmark PE deal

  June 12, 2026

  The partnership with PE firm Otro Capital closed weeks after the state auditor highlighted a host of potential risks.

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  Limited Partners

  KKR-owned Arctos eyes investments in Indian cricket

  June 11, 2026

  The Indian Premier League was valued at $18.5B last year, making it more valuable than the top soccer competitions of England and Spain.

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  Secondaries

  Blackstone vehicle suggests even liquidity providers need liquidity solutions

  June 8, 2026

  The investment manager is reportedly considering securitization to generate liquidity for investors in its massive Strategic Partners secondaries funds.

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  Capital Pool

  University of Utah PE foray highlights athletics profitability dilemma

  June 8, 2026

  The state auditor has warned that the university’s tie-up with Otro Capital could bring more opacity and minimal financial upside at a time when attracting sporting talent is more expensive than ever

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