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Software Buyout Returns: Testing the Private Equity Premium Through Benchmarks and In...

Software has reshaped the buyout market, attracting capital, commanding higher valuations, and expanding into private credit. But ...

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The changing legal and regulatory context as asset managers scale up in private marke...

Private capital fund managers are moving fast to access private wealth, utilize digital innovation, and build new capabilities, Wi...

Performance Benchmark Update for Japanese Venture Capital (as of 2025)

In close partnership with the Japan Venture Capital Association, Preqin is proud to announce our latest performance benchmark upda...

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‘Scale, complexity, and oversight’ key for US asset managers in private markets

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Buy-and-build gains ground in private equity

Middle East Update 2026

Private markets benchmarks enter their next era

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Weekly Private Markets People Moves

Weekly Private Markets People Moves

Weekly Private Markets People Moves

Weekly Private Markets People Moves

Europe’s growing appetite for alternative credit

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Performance Benchmark Update for Japanese Venture Capital (as of 2025)

In close partnership with the Japan Venture Capital Association, Preqin is proud to announce our latest performance benchmark upda...

Continuation Funds in 2026: Beyond Liquidity

Continuation funds have evolved from a liquidity workaround into a portfolio management tool in their own right. In 2026, LPs and ...

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Aiming for alpha in mid-market private equity, secondaries, and fund manager acquisit...

Sagard’s Jonathan Tétrault on the Montreal-based firm’s approach to private equity, global expansion, and sophisticated institutio...

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The strategies and sectors driving private real estate investment in 2026

What resilient fundraising, evolving industrial strategies, living-sector demand, and increasing secondaries activity reveal about...

US Buyouts 2026: Deals, Exits, and Fundraising

Across private markets, LPs and GPs alike are looking to US buyout activity as an early sign of what’s to come in 2026 and beyond.

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Service Providers in Private Markets and Hedge Funds 2026

As private markets become more complex, service providers are being called on to deliver more than operational support. Explore th...

The Preqin Guide to Private Capital Indices and Benchmarks

With global alternatives AUM expected to reach $32tn by 2030, demand for indices and benchmarks to evaluate private markets perfor...

The Best of Preqin: 2025

This special report brings together the best of Preqin’s content in 2025 – a curated selection of our strongest data-driven analys...

APAC Family Offices: A Growing Presence in Private Markets

APAC’s family offices are growing in number and becoming an expanding presence in private markets.

Spain Private Capital: Private Equity and Venture Capital Fundraising Hits Record Hig...

Spain’s private capital market reached a new fundraising milestone in 2025. While private equity and venture capital remain the ba...

South Korea LPs: 12-Month Look Ahead

South Korea-based LPs remain active across private markets, but allocation preferences are shifting. Preqin data reveals changing ...

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VC and private equity target the defense sector

How the new global context is attracting more private capital to innovative defense businesses in the US and Europe

Private credit is scaling faster than its data infrastructure

As allocations to private credit grow across institutional and private wealth portfolios, investors need to look beyond fund-level...

How Service Providers Can Win Private Markets Business in 2026

Winning new business in private markets is getting harder: sales cycles are longer, decision-making is more complex, and competiti...

Investor Outlook

Investor Outlook: North American private wealth

North America-based private wealth investors frequently allocate more than 20% of AUM to private markets, according to our latest ...

Trending Data: Why Total Portfolio Approach is on the rise

Investor public announcements relating to a Total Portfolio Approach are increasing in frequency as portfolio construction grows m...

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Private Markets in 2031

In Private Markets in 2031, we present our forecasts for fundraising, performance, and AUM growth across each asset class and cons...

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