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Latin America Investor Survey 2026

Latin America-based LPs are showing renewed conviction in private markets, according to our recent survey of investors in the regi...

Preqin Benchmarks and Indices: Private Markets Performance Data

Preqin’s Private Markets Performance Data report provides a quarterly update on private capital performance and a snapshot of the ...

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Why investors are turning to the bio-based chemical transition amid geopolitical vola...

Ambienta’s Fabio Ranghino explains the private equity investment case for bio-based chemicals, fundraising resilience, and the rol...

The Preqin Guide to Private Capital Indices and Benchmarks

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Continuation Funds in 2026: Performance and LP Profile

Private equity managers double up on continuation vehicles

Secondaries forecast to hit record $250bn in 2026 as momentum accelerates

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US pension fund CalPERS adopts total portfolio approach

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Canada-based LPs in 2026: Shifting preferences in private markets

Canada-based LPs are reshaping their private markets strategies in response to liquidity pressures and evolving portfolio construc...

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New growth equity firm backs ‘next generation’ companies in the US and Europe

Debut growth equity fund Ami Capital aims to scale up innovative ventures in longevity, lifestyle, sports, and entertainment by br...

LPs steady on private markets allocations as secondaries demand rises – Coller Capita...

Nearly two-thirds of LPs surveyed said the geopolitical environment does not influence current allocations, according to Coller Ca...

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The strategies and sectors driving private real estate investment in 2026

What resilient fundraising, evolving industrial strategies, living-sector demand, and increasing secondaries activity reveal about...

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Sustainability-labeled funds raise a combined $167bn in 2025

North America-focused sustainability-labeled funds raised a new record of $63.9bn, while funds focused on Europe raised $94.5bn la...

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Continuation Funds in 2026: Deals and Portfolio Companies

The geographic and industry concentration of single- and multi-asset continuation funds underlines the shift in how LPs and GPs us...

How Service Providers Can Win Private Markets Business in 2026

Winning new business in private markets is getting harder: sales cycles are longer, decision-making is more complex, and competiti...

Private credit is scaling faster than its data infrastructure

As allocations to private credit grow across institutional and private wealth portfolios, investors need to look beyond fund-level...

Performance Benchmark for India Alternative Investment Funds (as of September 2025)

In partnership with the Indian Venture and Alternate Capital Association and under eligibility from the Securities and Exchange Bo...

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Private credit’s diversification opportunity in Asia

The changing global context has encouraged private credit to turn to Asia, explains Christopher Smith of Singapore-based asset man...

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Switzerland-based non-institutional investors warm to private equity

Non‑institutional investors are emerging as the main source of optimism in Switzerland’s private equity market amid institutional ...

Tough market encourages buyout firms to prioritize operational value creation

Private equity recovery stalls as deal-making slows and firms shift to operationally-driven strategies

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National initiatives push quantum investing to the next level

As governments race to build quantum capabilities, venture capital is following – reshaping the global funding map for one of tech...

BDCs at $500bn: Enhanced Transparency into Private Credit

Quarterly, audited, and loan-level – as the value of BDC gross assets crosses $500bn, the dataset they generate is setting a new s...

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Secondaries in 2026

Our Secondaries in 2026 report examines how liquidity constraints, investor demand for DPI, and growing GP- and LP-led activity ar...

Research Note: Private equity’s narrowing premium

Recent performance data raises the question of whether private equity is still delivering sufficient compensation for illiquidity

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Private Markets Unpacked: BDCs examined

In our research for private wealth investors, we examine how BDCs work, why they have scaled with private wealth, and the key trad...

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