Alternative Views with HarbourVest’s Richard Hickman
We discuss liquidity and NAV to share price discounts with Richard Hickman, managing director of HarbourVest Global Private Equity, the listed private equity fund managed by HarbourVest Partners.
We discuss liquidity and NAV to share price discounts with Richard Hickman, managing director of HarbourVest Global Private Equity, the listed private equity fund managed by HarbourVest Partners.

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Hedging is a critical tool for funds that raise and deploy capital globally to protect themselves from currency risk. Against a volatile macroeconomic backdrop and an increasingly challenging fundraising and exit environment, that imperative is only growing – though it brings liquidity risk of it’s own. This paradox is accentuated

Angus Whiteley, CEO of Stafford Capital Partners, discusses timberland investment.

For this special episode recognising International Women’s Day, we sit down with Gurpreet Manku, the CEO of Level 20, an organisation focused on improving the representation of senior women in private markets firms across Europe.

Industry sentiment was clear when more than 300 senior private markets professionals gathered in London for our annual summit – momentum is there to be gained, provided it’s underpinned by discipline. Here are five things we learned.

Tim Schumacher, Co-Founder of saas.group, discusses remote work and software-as-a-service.

Cédric Garnier-Landurie, CEO of Cordiant Capital, discusses investment origination and the agricultural sector.

Daniel Kemdeng, Owner of Amero, discusses social impact investment and the global coffee market.

The most prominent names in private markets contributed articles to the Private Equity Wire® Global Outlook 2026 report, each with their few hundred words on an interesting space to watch for the year ahead.
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