How can private markets serve allocators?

Reducing risk and boosting returns with private assets and alts

Given the huge market volatility seen in 2025 so far, looking to private markets to find high-yielding opportunities with minimal perceived risk is a natural move for some allocators. Explore the latest insights into hedge funds, private equity, infrastructure, and other parts of the private markets universe from top asset managers and institutions.

World’s Largest Institutions Are Embracing FI Hedge Funds (RBC BlueBay AM)

Investors are increasingly focusing on private debt, hedge funds, and private credit to enhance portfolio yields and mitigate risk.

Do Public Equities Span Private Equity Returns? (Institute for Private Capital)

Alternative assets offer the possibility of superior returns and diversification benefits not available in traditional asset classes.

Private Assets Likely to Stay Resilient during Market Turmoil (Amundi)

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Private assets outperform listed markets the most in economic soft-patches and usually underperform in the early stages of economic recovery.

Pain in Spain: Why Infrastructure Resilience Is Important (M&G Investments)

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Few events in modern history have revealed our dependence on electricity infrastructure as starkly as the Iberian power outage of 28 April.

Has the Golden Age of Private Credit Lost Its Shine? (Hamilton Lane)

While global private markets fundraising saw another year of decline in 2024, private credit fundraising as a percentage of total private markets fundraising recovered.

Targeting the Infrastructure Middle-Market Opportunity (HarbourVest Partners)

Private infrastructure is a large and dynamic market that has amassed the bulk of its more than $1.5 trillion AUM rapidly over the past decade.

Hedge Funds: A Hedge for Increasing Government Debt Issuance? (Bank of Canada)

The increased bidding by hedge funds and not other investors amid higher debt issuance can be explained by the hedge funds’ inherent business model.

Investing in Europe: Private Equity Activity 2024 (Invest Europe)

The machinery of the European private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) industry is working well. Explore the latest data behind Europe's PE and VC landscape.

The Fundamentals of Infrastructure Secondaries (StepStone Group)

Infrastructure assets tend to be capital-intensive. This rings particularly true for energy transition and digital infrastructure assets.