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Stonehage Fleming and GreenBear Group want to see aging funds wound up as quickly as possible to avoid issues such as questions around valuations.

A live deal by Carlyle is taking the concept of structured solutions to another level.

Talent is a core ingredient of fundraising and future deal-making success.

With secondaries becoming a more popular pathway to exit, it’s key to acknowledge the complexity of valuations, according to Valuation Research Corporation’s Subu Parmeswaran.

In this podcast, PEI Group reporters discuss takeaways from the 2026 Private Funds CFO Forum in New York, including how Washington’s pressure on the industry has eased, and how private funds should seize the moment.

Fund allocators such as Goldman Sachs’ external investing group and Allianz Global Investors are putting more focus on rising private debt GP consolidation.

‘It’s unbelievable how well the industry performed for many years,’ Steve Kaplan tells a standing-room-only crowd at Private Funds CFO’s New York Forum.

As demands on the treasury role intensify, more and more private capital firms are carving out a dedicated group.

Those in DEI and impact investment had to get comfortable with the return of Donald Trump to the White House in 2025.

The year’s M&A market answered the pressures and volatility of the playing field with creativity and AI-tools, and look to the do the same in 2026, according to Colin Schopbach, Americas chief revenue officer at Datasite.