Performance

Affiliate publication Buyouts’ 2026 list of the biggest North American LPs finds plenty of familiar faces committing $1.5trn to the asset class, up 6.3% from a year earlier.

The value of the strategy is being debated as a tool to be used during an unprecedented slowdown in the private markets.

Co-investments and single-asset CVs offer investors 'greater control', partner Zach Jackson tells PEI.

Some fear GPs are at risk of overpromising and underdelivering on AI’s ability to drive topline growth.

Capital raised by North America-based PE funds in H1 2026 was the highest for a first half in three years, while fund closings fell to their lowest level since pandemic-roiled H1 2020. What gives?

California pension with just shy of $1bn portfolio previously cited high fees and unimpressive risk-adjusted returns as reasons to skip private equity, but hears rationale for revisiting decision from Callan.

Buyout, growth equity, secondaries, venture capital and other PE funds had raised a total of $308bn as of June 30, up 9% from the $282bn secured a year earlier, according to PEI Group data.

Evercore and HEC Paris's fifth CV performance study includes 396 CVs formed between 2018 and 2024, a significant increase on the 140 funds analyzed in the inaugural report.

The $1.15trn sovereign wealth fund is also centralising data using AI across its private equity portfolio amid persistent geopolitical instability, said operating partner Jose De Ochoa at a PEI conference.

Managers selling minority stakes in their businesses can have implications for LPs invested in or considering the relevant GPs' funds.