Liquidity, Distributions and the Exit Backlog: How Endowments Are Navigating the Drought
Endowments are not abandoning private equity, but they are being selective.
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Private-Market Performance Under Pressure
Higher borrowing and input costs mean broadly buying the market does not guarantee the level of returns investors came to expect from private assets.
Institutional Real Estate Still Experiencing Unsteady Post-COVID Recovery
Could the largest valuation reset in the asset class since the global financial crisis create a compelling opportunity for institutional investors?
Ohio Police & Fire to Invest up to $100M in Industrial Real Estate Fund
The $22 billion pension fund is looking to boost its real estate assets closer to its target allocation.
Family Office Investors Attracted by Flexibility, Tax Advantages of Direct and Co-Investments
Interest in alternative investments remains strong, but family offices are taking a more disciplined approach to the asset class.
Private Capital CFOs Face Growing Demand for Transparency
Fund financing, reporting and risk management are investors’ top concerns, according to a CSC survey.
Endowments’ Alts Allocations Hit Plateau
As these institutions have less room to scale up their private markets programs, they are slowing down their investments in alternative asset classes, according to a report from Morgan Stanley.
BlackRock Sees Strong Institutional Demand for Private Credit
The asset class, along with infrastructure, drove the firm’s inflows during the first quarter, while executives downplayed woes related to investor BDC redemptions.
MSCI Buys Secondaries Market Data Company PM Insights
With the purchase, the index provider seeks to bring transparency to private market pricing, valuation, transaction and liquidity data.
Large Endowments Hold Steady With Private Market Allocations
Despite emerging headwinds for higher-education institutions, these long-term investors are staying true to what they know.
Private Equity Dealmaking Set to Rebound, per McKinsey
While deal value is increasing, the industry still faces structural headwinds.
What LPs Expect From Their Alts Managers
Limited partners report that ‘depth beats noise, and alignment beats hype’ when evaluating new general partners, according to a survey from LP networking community Commonplace.
IFM Investors Maps Path for Australia’s Super Funds to Meet US Infrastructure Funding Gap
To revitalize American infrastructure, IFM described pension funding as a ‘generational opportunity.’
Private Credit Grapples With Sustained Investor Skepticism
Investor unease has pressured the investment class.
Indiana Mandates Access to Crypto Investments for Participants in Certain State Retirement Plans
The state is the first in the U.S. to require digital assets be an investment option in public defined contribution plans through a brokerage window.