As the asset class scales, the pressure on margins intensifies and the hunt for differentiated returns grows more competitive. This session examines where true alpha still lives — and at what operational cost.
From rate trajectories to geopolitical fragmentation, the macroeconomic environment continues to reshape the risk-return calculus across private markets. Senior allocators and managers convene to separate signal from noise.
Perpetual-life vehicles have moved from novelty to structural fixture, yet their operational and governance complexities remain in flux. This session interrogates the architecture behind evergreen strategies and the trade-offs that define them.
Workshop A: The Evolving Mechanics of Evergreens
A deep-dive working session for practitioners navigating the structural, operational, and investor relations challenges inherent in perpetual-life vehicles. Participants share frameworks and stress-test assumptions in a closed, peer-led format.
Workshop B: Valuations and Reporting Across Asset Classes
With regulatory and LP scrutiny of private markets valuations at an all-time high, consistent and defensible methodology has become a competitive differentiator. This roundtable examines emerging standards and the pressure points firms are navigating in real time.
Workshop C: The Stealth AUM: Unpacking the Co-Investments Landscape
Co-investments represent one of the fastest-growing and least-transparent capital pools in private markets today. This session surfaces the dynamics shaping deal access, alignment, and governance across LP and GP co-investment programmes.
Workshop D: AI and Investments: From Firm to Asset
A practitioner-focused forum to move beyond the headlines and stress-test where AI is generating – and where it is merely promising – tangible investment and operational return. Attendees exchange case studies and challenge prevailing assumptions.
Workshop E: Emerging Managers Assembly
A dedicated forum for the next generation of private markets managers navigating the structural headwinds of first-time fundraising in a highly selective LP environment. Candid discussion on differentiation, track record construction, and building institutional-grade operations.
Speakers
The private credit market has never been more crowded, more diverse, or more consequential to portfolio construction. This session maps the competitive dynamics separating the disciplined from the desperate for yield.
As traditional bank balance sheets continue to retreat, asset-based finance is emerging as a defining pillar of the modern credit ecosystem. Leading practitioners examine the opportunity set and the underwriting rigour it demands.
Infrastructure and real estate debt offer inflation linkage and capital preservation — but not without complexity in structuring and execution. This session navigates the nuances of lending across two of private markets' most enduring asset classes.
The secondary market for private credit is evolving rapidly, offering liquidity solutions where few once existed. This session examines the mechanics of credit secondaries and the structural considerations that govern pricing and duration alignment.
Speakers
The operational backbone of private credit is under greater scrutiny as portfolios scale and regulators sharpen their focus on mark practices. Practitioners discuss what best-in-class looks like across the full credit lifecycle.
Direct lending has navigated a dramatic rate cycle and emerged — tested but resilient — as a cornerstone of institutional portfolios. Senior practitioners assess where spreads, structures, and default dynamics stand heading into the next phase.
Permanent capital is the industry's most coveted prize — stable, scalable, and increasingly within reach through new vehicle structures and distribution channels. Leaders explore what it truly takes to secure and sustain it.
Behind every allocation decision lies a framework shaped by mandate, conviction, and constraint. This session offers unfiltered insight into how today's most sophisticated LPs are constructing, reviewing, and repositioning their private markets exposure.
Following the Private Equity Wire® Summit, join us for an evening of celebration and networking!
For more than a decade, Private Equity Wire® has been recognising excellence in the fields of fundraising, portfolio performance,
and service provision. This year, we're bringing all our US awards together into one, stellar evening, where we will celebrate
all those driving innovation, transformation and growth across the private markets landscape.