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PE Fundraising

Sagard PE closes third fund-of-funds for emerging managers at €520M

November 5, 2026

The fund beats its €400 million target by 30%

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Buyouts

Fundraising dominance of mega-funds wanes in line with performance

October 30, 2026

Upper-middle-market funds have increased their share of US PE fundraising and have the momentum going into the final months of the year.

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PE Fundraising

Q&A: How to derisk backing independent sponsors

October 23, 2026

Federated Hermes’ Cameron Payne says long relationships, not fast deals, protect investors.

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PE Fundraising

Median European PE fund size more than doubles in 3 years to €360M

October 9, 2026

Fundraising is concentrating in fewer, larger funds as established managers take 88.5% of capital.

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Growth Equity

Tiny Brooklyn manager raises $160M for software bets

October 7, 2026

‘We don’t even have an IR department,’ said Shalin Mehta, whose firm Seva Growth raised the fund in about a month.

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Fundraising

Graham Capital Investments seeks $250M for debut independent sponsor fund

October 7, 2026

The Pennsylvania firm, part of a family-owned business and investment group linked to industrialist Donald C. Graham, will do primary and secondary deals with the new pool.

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Fundraising

Anthropic, OpenAI backer D.E. Shaw targets $1B for second VC fund

October 5, 2026

The $115 billion quantitative hedge fund’s latest vehicle would be double the size of its predecessor.

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PE Fundraising

Tech PE’s fundraising recovery is leaving tourists behind

September 23, 2026

PSG Equity and Francisco Partners accounted for over 80% of the $31.3B raised by tech-focused funds in Q3, while fund count remained flat.

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PE Fundraising

Siguler Guff closes record $3B fund as LPs chase the lower middle market

September 18, 2026

Smaller deals offer reprieve from a buyout market plagued by costly debt and frozen exits.

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Policy & Regulation

Rate rise could exacerbate longstanding problems for the US PE industry

September 16, 2026

The higher cost of capital comes on top of the threat of AI, an exit bottleneck and dampened investor appetite.

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Private Equity

Goldman eyes strategic buyers with $11.7B PE haul

September 16, 2026

‘The easy part might be deploying the money. The hard part is securing an exit,’ said global co-head of private equity Michael Bruun on the close of the firm’s ninth flagship fund.

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Software

Thoma Bravo hires new Asia head

September 8, 2026

Ken S. Park joins from HIG Capital, where he led the PE firm’s Asia fundraising operation across PE, credit, real estate and infrastructure.

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Weekend Analysis

Can passive PE investing enhance portfolio performance?

August 28, 2026

Commitments to a closed-end fund strategy are made on a formulaic, capital-weighted basis, using each underlying fund’s target capitalization.

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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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PE Fundraising

Growth strategies grab a bigger slice of shrinking UK PE fundraising

August 13, 2026

LPs have redirected capital toward growth funds this year even as overall fundraising collapsed.

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Private Equity

PE sponsors retreat from Southern Europe

August 4, 2026

Bolt-ons and non-backed targets are carrying regional dealmaking.

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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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Private Equity

Francisco Partners’ $21B haul defies tech PE fundraising chill

July 23, 2026

It will target markets where incumbents are protected by high switching costs and regulatory barriers.

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