Australian pension funds set out on a mission last week to expand their exposure to private markets assets in Europe. We caught up with some of those funds to understand where they see the opportunity in the region.
Firms in today’s climate need to not only evaluate an asset’s ability to weather all manner of disruptive forces, but they also need to create a growth plan that is able to play out in sectors that are now transforming – quite literally – from one month to the next.
STORIES OF TRANSFORMATION: Quantum computing has been a hypothetical technology since the 1980s. Now, it is beginning to reach commercialisation, with the prospect of transforming areas including drug development, financial modelling, and telecommunications.
In Alternative Views, Private Equity Wire® goes behind closed doors with those in the know to get the latest on private markets. In this episode, we discuss blockchain investing with Ruud Smets, CIO of Theta Capital Management, an Amsterdam-based blockchain VC fund of funds.
This week saw the Q1 earnings for some of the major Wall Street banks and financial institutions. Reports came in for Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, BlackRock, Bank of America, and Morgan Stanley. The headline figures were strong jumps in earnings, as traders looked to capitalise on market
STORIES OF TRANSFORMATION: Increasingly, major infrastructure projects require environmental impact assessments (EIAs) before they can be undertaken, a significant opportunity for the firms who conduct them. In February WestBridge completed the sale of environmental consultancy APEM Group, which conducts EIAs, delivering an 11.5x multiple.
In Alternative Views, Private Equity Wire® goes behind closed doors with those in the know to get the latest on private markets. In this episode, we discuss the role of private markets in social and economic infrastructure with Hugo Llewelyn, CEO of Newcore Capital.
Investors are evaluating how to meet the world’s energy needs, while avoiding unstable supply chains.
Private Equity Wire®’s Editor, Aftab Bose, highlights the democratisation dynamics that underpin the biggest stories in private markets through the first quarter of 2026.
PE exits and dealmaking both lag behind wider M&A activity by some distance this year. That means the plumbing and engineering behind the secondary market will be put under more pressure than ever.
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