Beyond Efficiency: How AI Is Reshaping Private Equity Value Creation

Artificial intelligence is opening new avenues for private equity value creation. The real opportunity, however, lies not in adopting the technology for its own sake, but in translating it into measurable operating improvements, new sources...
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Unpacking the Essentials for Private Capital Investors

Explore informed perspectives on private capital through a curated collection of articles, opinions, expert interviews and editorial commentary. Drawing on industry expertise and market intelligence, our insights examine key developments, emerging trends and investment considerations shaping the private capital landscape.

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The Great Narrowing: How Concentration Is Reshaping European Private EquityCapital

European private equity is narrowing on three fronts at once: capital is flowing to fewer managers, liquidity is coming from fewer exits, and returns depend on fewer levers. For LPs and GPs, the test is...
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Capital Is Abundant. Connection Is Not: Energy Infrastructure’s Execution Test

Managers are raising large sums to build the power systems the world needs. The binding constraints are now security of supply, access to the grid and the price paid for assets everyone wants to own.
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Private Credit’s Exit Problem: Value Isn’t Liquidity

A business can be worth more than a lender can actually realise. As delayed exits, refinancing constraints and redemption pressures stretch repayment timelines, they are testing a central assumption of private credit: that capital can...
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Private Credit’s Blind Spot: Defaults Are the Last Place Stress Shows Up

As borrower stress becomes harder to distinguish from temporary liquidity pressure, amendments, PIK and maturity extensions can delay the moment trouble reaches reported default figures. The question for private credit investors is whether their portfolios...
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Real Estate Debt in a Changing Market: Discipline, Data and the Search for Resilient Returns

Adam Dean, Vice President and Portfolio Manager at CMLS Asset Management, discusses the evolving opportunity in Canadian real estate debt, the importance of institutional underwriting and why disciplined capital deployment matters most when markets become...
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Building on Trust: Marcus Gillam on Why Partnership Is Construction’s Best Risk Strategy

As projects grow more complex and experienced talent retires, the President and CEO of Gillam Group argues that the industry's most valuable asset is not a contract but a relationship.
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