Managers
Apollo Global Management is cutting risk across its balance sheet and increasing liquidity as it positions for potential turbulence in credit and equity markets, according to a report by the Financial Times citing comments made by Chief Executive Marc Rowan.
Cinven Co-Managing Partner Supraj Rajagopalan and CFO and COO Alex Leslie will step down from their roles and leave the firm, according to a report by Reuters. The private equity firm said former CFO Mike Colato, who currently serves as a senior adviser, will assume the role of interim CFO and COO.
Global private equity firms including Warburg Pincus and KKR are exploring potential bids for Southeast Asia-focused education platform XCL Education, according to a report by Bloomberg citing people familiar with the matter. Other alternative asset managers understood to be assessing the opportunity include Blackstone and EQT.
Energy Capital Partners, the private equity firm backed by Bridgepoint Group Plc, has returned over $5.5bn to investors so far in 2025, in one of its most active years since its 2005 founding, according to a report by Bloomberg.
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.
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12 November, 2026 – 8:00 am
12 November, 2026 – 5:00 pm
