Managers
Blackstone expects private equity dealmaking to accelerate into 2026 as financing conditions improve and market uncertainty eases, according to a Bloomberg interview with Lionel Assant, the firm’s global co-chief investment officer. Assant says falling debt costs, tighter credit spreads and greater clarity around macro and policy risks are helping to unlock M&A activity after a prolonged slowdown.
International consumer and industrial groups are increasingly exploring partnerships with private equity investors to reshape or partially exit their China operations, according to a report by the Financial Times.
Stone Point Capital is testing a roughly $1bn evergreen fund as it looks to expand into the retail wealth market, according to a report by Bloomberg. The vehicle is being seeded with capital from the firm’s Trident flagship private equity funds and could eventually be opened to wealthy individual investors.
Ares Management CEO Michael Arougheti says the firm has deliberately avoided the wave of partnerships between alt asset managers and traditional investment houses aimed at accelerating access to retail investors — particularly in the fast-evolving 401(k) channel, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Stockholm-based private equity firm EQT AB is set to facilitate the deployment of 10,000 humanoid robots across its portfolio companies through a partnership with a robotics startup it backs, 1X Technologies AS, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Apollo Global Management has moved its rapidly expanding complex lending business out of its private equity buyout division, underlining the firm’s strategic pivot toward private credit, according to a report by the Financial Times.
Carlyle Group CFO John Redett has expressed confidence in the firm’s fundraising prospects as he prepares to step into a dual role as co-president and head of its private equity platform, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Invesco has expanded its push into private markets through a new partnership with LGT Capital Partners, aimed at offering US retail and retirement investors exposure to private equity, private credit, infrastructure and secondary stakes, according to a report by Bloomberg.
US prosecutors have charged the chief executive of Mozaic Payments, a Nashville-based technology startup, with orchestrating a scheme that allegedly defrauded a private equity firm out of $20m, according to a report by Reuters.
Ares Management will join the S&P 500 on 11 December before the market opens, becoming the latest alternative asset manager to enter the benchmark, according to a report by Reuters citing S&P Dow Jones Indices.
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12 November, 2026 – 8:00 am
12 November, 2026 – 5:00 pm
