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.

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

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.

A new club will soon be crowned king of European football, and half of the remaining teams have private market connections.

The forms of financing are often uttered in the same breath, but have come to be used for different purposes.

LPs poured in $234.1 billion last year, the most capital of any asset class outside PE.

The Q1 2026 US Evergreen Fund Landscape report covers the rapid rise of evergreen funds, providing data and insights on assets, flows, returns, and more.

The 2025 Annual Global Private Debt Report analyzes global private debt fundraising, fund performance, and cash flows.

The liquidity crunch in the BDC market has stirred a debate about how managers should handle an increased level of redemption requests.

The region’s share of global capital raised reached a peak of 33.9% in 2025.

Credit, infrastructure and secondaries emerged as the winners last year as PE fundraising fell to new lows.