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Aug 25, 2026
Can private capital help Europe close its investment gap?
From AI and biotech to energy infrastructure and pension reforms, policymakers and investors are seeking ways to channel more priv...
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Aug 20, 2026
Why US defined contribution plans could be a $15tn opportunity for private capital
With more retirement plans such as 401(k)s opening up to alternative assets, SEI’s Ben Heidari explains what it means for asset ma...
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How private equity investment is transforming the global accountancy industry
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Why investors are turning to the bio-based chemical transition amid geopolitical vola...
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Continuation Funds in 2026: Deals and Portfolio Companies
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Structured capital: financing growth without giving up control
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Performance Benchmark for Japan Private Equity (as of 2024)
In close partnership with the Japan Private Equity Association (JPEA), Preqin is proud to announce our latest performance benchmar...
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Aug 7, 2026
Aiming for alpha in mid-market private equity, secondaries, and fund manager acquisit...
Sagard’s Jonathan Tétrault on the Montreal-based firm’s approach to private equity, global expansion, and sophisticated institutio...
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Jul 8, 2026
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...
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Apr 15, 2026
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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Feb 26, 2026
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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Aug 9, 2026
Continuation Funds in 2026: Beyond Liquidity
Continuation funds have evolved from a liquidity workaround into a portfolio management tool in their own right. In 2026, LPs and ...
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Jul 8, 2026
The Preqin Guide to Private Capital Indices and Benchmarks
With global alternatives AUM expected to reach $32tn by 2030, demand for indices and benchmarks to evaluate private markets perfor...
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Jul 1, 2026
US pension fund CalPERS adopts total portfolio approach
Changes at the public pension, which allocates 36.1% of its $634.1bn AUM to private markets as of May 2026, take effect on July 1,...
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Aug 10, 2026
Italy-Based LPs: Private Markets Outlook
LPs in Italy are recalibrating their private markets approach, with non-institutional investors steadily expanding their footprint...
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Jul 16, 2026
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...
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Jul 7, 2026
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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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...
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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...
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The Best of Preqin: 2025
This special report brings together the best of Preqin’s content in 2025 – a curated selection of our strongest data-driven analys...
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Private equity performance is about more than headline returns. Evaluating net cash flows, NAV, and public market comparisons can ...
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Institutional Allocation Study 2026
Private markets remain strategically important to institutional portfolios, but slower capital recycling and weaker distributions ...
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Sector in Focus: Aerospace & defense
In this Sector in Focus report, we use Preqin data to track the expansion of private market investment in the aerospace and defens...
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