Our premium research reports deliver actionable insight on the latest trends in the private equity industry. Each month, Private Equity’s analysts explore a new theme using interviews with subject matter experts, data from key sources, and surveys of market participants.
Our premium research reports deliver actionable insight on the latest trends in the private equity industry. Each month, Private Equity’s analysts explore a new theme using interviews with subject matter experts, data from key sources, and surveys of market participants.
Please browse our previous reports below.
STORIES OF TRANSFORMATION: Commercialising social impact investment means ensuring that the economic incentives exist for firms to align their actions with the goals of society. That’s the objective of Better Society Capital.
Approaches to core AI infrastructure development have a strong bearing on how deeply it can be embedded across the investment lifecycle. Whether to buy or build, assemble or integrate is a decision predicated strongly on asset class, size and talent.
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 share price discounts and liquidity management with Charlotte Morris, a partner in Pantheon’s global secondaries team who also runs Pantheon International, the firm’s listed private equity fund.
STORIES OF TRANSFORMATION: As demand grows for a reliable base load of zero carbon electricity, nuclear has come back into the picture. After years of stagnation, investors and governments are now looking to expand existing capacity, and reopen old plants.
With companies staying private for longer, retail investors have even more to gain from early exposure. Tokenisation could help broaden private markets access, offering greater flexibility than what is currently on offer.
September 2026 | As we progress to late in the cycle, private credit has developed into a substantial force in the global economy, highly stratified, increasingly sophisticated and vastly dispersed. A maturing market brings with it conversations around opportunism, innovation, risk management, operational agility and standardisation – all themes that will be explored in this research.
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 GP Verticals™ with Alex Barr and James Witter, co-founders of Sarasin Bread Street, the private markets arm of Sarasin & Partners.
STORIES OF TRANSFORMATION: Following the deregulation of the water market in England, private equity firm Perwyn eyed an opportunity to invest in Everflow, supporting the transformation of the business from a water retailer into a wider utilities offering.
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 sponsor-backed lending with Stuart Mathieson, head of European private finance at Barings.
On today’s Stories of Transformation, we are joined by Keith Beattie, an operating partner at Astorg, to discuss identifying business models resilient to AI disruption, and how Al can enhance company operations.
On the sidelines of IPEM Global, Private Equity Wire® caught up with Ridgepost Capital CEO Luke Sarsfield to discuss the appeal of the mid-market, AI implementation, and the challenges of democratisation.
The US and Canada are both grappling with chronic housing shortages, brought about through a combination of underinvestment, regulatory challenges, and rising inflation. Fengate Asset Management is looking to help address affordability concerns through its retail estate division.
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 investing through geopolitical volatility with Aaron Hussein, global market strategist at JPMorgan Asset Management.
The investor base of private and public markets are converging, but to what extent can the propositions be mirrored? From semi-liquid funds with daily pricing to multi-asset offerings, and the platformisation of private markets from the front end to the back office, this report examines how managers are coping with the growing convergence of investor types and experiences.
The question facing many GPs, as continuation vehicles become an increasingly popular exit route, is how to retain and recycle the capital from those transactions. Our research finds that liquidity generation for LPs is the biggest use case for CVs currently, but the investor experience through the process can be pivotal for future capital relationships.
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 European private credit with Marcus Maier-Krug, partner and co-head of portfolio management at Arcmont Asset Management.
STORIES OF TRANSFORMATION: Combatting megatrends such as AI disruption, global pandemics and climate change will require coordinating different sectors of the economy towards a common goal. Anoop Maini, a fellow at the University of Cambridge’s Judge Business School, discusses how the shift towards outcomes-based industries can be made possible, and the role that private capital can play.
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 GP stakes with Ajay Chitkara, managing partner of Bonaccord Capital Partners, who implement this strategy with minority stakes in mid-market investors.
Rising interest from GPs in buying allocators allows them to capture the upside from structural trends. As long as they avoid conflicts of interest.
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 private-equity evergreens with Ethan Vogelhut, head of buyout investments Americas, at Schroders Capital.
