Private Debt

The Private Capital Return Barometers provide a data-driven, factor-based assessment of US private market fund performance, offering timely estimates of quarterly returns and insights into market conditions across asset classes.

The Q3 2026 Quantitative Perspectives: US Market Insights report examines how private capital markets are navigating macro volatility and persistent liquidity constraints.

The Q4 2025 Global Fund Performance Report (with preliminary Q1 2026 data) offers commentary on the salient trends across private fund strategies’ performance.

A potential tie-up with Leonard Green & Partners would help the listed giant expand a relatively small PE footprint and boost its fee-paying AUM.

The 2025 PitchBook Global Manager Performance Score League Tables identify the top fund families across 10 fund strategies.

This analyst note uses PitchBook’s Return Barometers to model how private market strategies might have performed during past stagflation, oil shock, and bubble-deflation episodes.

Lenders are monetizing assets whose keys they took during the pandemic and negotiating hard to prepare themselves for the future.

The Q2 2026 US Evergreen Fund Landscape report covers the rapid rise of evergreen funds, providing data and insights on assets, flows, returns, and more.

The PitchBook Private Capital Return Barometers are a suite of models that assess the current return environment for US private market funds.

But their shrinking share of deals doesn’t mean direct lenders are pulling back from private equity, yet.

The country’s 10th-largest commercial bank wants to expand the scope of its lending business, which targets midsize PE-backed companies.

The Q1 2026 Global Private Market Fundraising Report offers a definitive review of the private market fund landscape with fundraising, cash flow, dry powder, and AUM data across geographies and seven strategies, including private equity and venture capital.

Publicly traded BDCs have been increasingly returning capital to investors through share buybacks instead of investing it in loans.

The Q3 2025 Global Fund Performance Report (with preliminary Q4 2025 data) offers commentary on the salient trends across private fund strategies’ performance.

Lenders are growing more selective about the deals they back, which means stricter underwriting and requirements to demonstrate real earnings.

The Private Capital Return Barometers provide a data-driven, factor-based assessment of US private market fund performance, offering timely estimates of quarterly returns and insights into market conditions across asset classes.

Dealmaking hit a record $1.6 trillion, but one $250 billion deal flattered the numbers.

The median late-stage venture debt deal reached $10.8 million in Q1, as capital-intensive AI companies sidestep pre-IPO equity dilution.