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Bain’s 2025 Midyear Private Equity Report: Executive Summary

Amid a turbulent year, is the industry poised for more of the same or a sudden turnaround?

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Leaning Into the Turbulence: Private Equity Midyear Report 2025

Opportunities can flow out of today’s uncertainty and ease mounting pressure on the industry.

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A $140 Trillion Riddle, Wrapped in a Mystery, Inside of an Enigma

Stanford’s Ashby Monk studies the inner workings of pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, and foundations—in short, LPs that straddle the public and private sectors.

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Strong Start for Consumer Investing in 2025, but Uncertainty Emerging in Q2

While consumer buyout deal value surged in the first quarter of 2025, tariff turbulence could slow momentum.

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Navigating the Evolution of Private Equity: An Interview with Hugh MacArthur

At a moment of heightened uncertainty, we reflect on the industry’s watershed moments.

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The Rise and Rise of the Secondary Market with Lexington Partners’ Wilson Warren

A 30-year veteran shares why the secondary market’s growth continues to surprise him.

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NAV Loans Under the Microscope with 17Capital’s Pierre-Antoine de Selancy

We ask a leader in NAV loans about the enthusiasm and the skepticism around this growing trend.

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Inside Bain’s 2025 Asia-Pacific Private Equity Report

Bain partners share the trends and insights that are setting the pace for private equity in Asia-Pacific.

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Full Speed Ahead with Hamilton Lane’s Erik Hirsch

In the second of our two-part series, we learn how Hamilton Lane is building an analytics engine that can serve both institutional and individual investors.

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Warp Speed with Hamilton Lane’s Erik Hirsch

Hamilton Lane’s co-CEO takes us inside the rapid build-out of private market infrastructure.

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Asia-Pacific Private Equity Report 2025

Most markets showed signs of bouncing back, but fund-raising remained in freefall.

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Where Infrastructure Deals Are Heading

In the second of our two-part infrastructure series, we look at which subsectors are heating up and how opportunities across sectors are converging.

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Infrastructure’s New Playbook

Infrastructure deals are evolving, and private capital could play a pivotal role in the space.

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Inside Bain's 2025 Private Equity Report

Bain's Hugh MacArthur shares key insights from our 2025 Global Private Equity Report.

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Dry Powder: Live from NEXUS 2025

Carlyle’s Brian Bernasek shares his 2025 market outlook, his thoughts on sector expertise, and how his team is rapidly deploying generative AI.

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Bain & Company’s 2025 Global Private Equity Report: Executive Summary

We cover three overarching themes from this year’s report, including clear evidence of an industry recovery, continuing challenges for general partners, and strategies for winning the future.

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PE-Backed Carve-Outs Used to Be Reliable Winners. So What Happened?

Top-tier deals still deliver, but the average carve-out lags. Here’s how the best funds continue to win.

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Wanted: Margin Growth in Software Investing

Private equity investors have relied almost exclusively on revenue growth and multiple expansion to power software buyout returns. That was nice, but those days are over.

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Private Equity Outlook 2025: Is a Recovery Starting to Take Shape?

Dealmaking rebounded in 2024, but regaining fund-raising momentum may take longer.

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Field Notes from the Generative AI Insurgency in Private Equity

Private equity is learning fast what works and what doesn’t when applying AI to create value. Here’s how firms are organizing themselves to win.

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This Time It’s Different: The Strategic Imperative in Private Equity

Structural changes are already altering the competitive landscape in alternatives. Do you have a plan to stay ahead over the coming decade?

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Decarbonization That Works: Five Key Actions in Private Equity

Scope 1 and 2 emissions-reduction leaders focus on both decarbonization and value creation.

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Value or Vanish: The Diverging Paths of North American Banks

Management’s equity story will make or break the bank’s standing with investors.

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From Start-Ups to Scale-Ups with Insight Partners’ Deven Parekh

We ask how the Insight team invests across venture capital, growth equity, and buyouts.

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Profile of an Industry Innovator with TPG’s Jim Coulter

Jim Coulter reflects on the legacy of his cofounder, David Bonderman, while asking whether private equity still makes room for unorthodox investors like him today.

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The Leaders Strategy with GTCR’s Collin Roche

In an industry where management change-out rates hover around 50%, GTCR is a curious outlier.

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What Investors Want from North American Banks

There’s a wide disparity among banks in convincing investors about prospects for profitable growth.

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Macro Update: The Expanding Frontiers of Automation

From strawberry picking to bricklaying, automation is revolutionizing unexpected corners of the workforce.

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Healthcare Private Equity Market 2024: Year in Review and Outlook

Despite high borrowing costs and extended hold times in 2024, dealmaking roared ahead, marking the second-highest year on record.

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Why Mid-Market Healthcare Private Equity Firms Are Outperforming

Limited partners have embraced mid-market fund managers for their strong returns and industry expertise.

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Carve-Outs Open Up Value in a Tight Deal Market

Carve-outs give private equity firms access to undervalued assets while allowing public companies to divest slow-growth businesses.

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Maximizing Exit Value: An Imperative for Both Sellers and Buyers

Challenging market dynamics and macroeconomic factors are adding to an exit slowdown.

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An Optimistic Growth Outlook in Asia-Pacific

An evolving macroeconomic and geopolitical landscape has fueled investment diversification to India, Japan, and South Korea.

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Macro Update: Navigating Inflation and Policy Shifts Under a New Administration

With inflation easing and public markets on the rise, the key questions are whether the Federal Reserve has overcorrected and how the new administration will impact the path to recovery.

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Rethinking Defense: The Role of Private Capital

The defense sector needs private capital to fuel innovation, expand capacity, and improve affordability.

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Tech Sector Update: Waiting for a Recovery

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Game Changers in Generative AI with Hg’s David Toms

In part two of our interview series, we explore how generative AI is forcing a radical reconsideration of how software is priced and deployed at scale.