As the global interest rate cycle shifts, what strategies can investors employ to seize capital opportunities? Over the past two years, high interest rates have caused a liquidity squeeze in private markets, but the tide is turning.

The results of State Street’s third annual Private Markets Survey, conducted among more than 500 institutional investors worldwide, forms the basis of this webinar. Participants will learn how their peers are responding to the continued global economic challenges facing the industry, and how regulatory developments and…

Join State Street experts for their webinar Old Challenges and New Frontiers: Private Market Trends in the 2020s. The discussion is based on a survey of 480 investment institutions fielded in Q4 2022, with respondents split evenly between traditional asset managers, private markets-specific asset managers, asset owners and…

Private markets are rapidly evolving as technology advances, data-driven strategies and shifting investor priorities create both opportunities and challenges.

Rising interest rates, inflationary pressures as well as economic and geopolitical uncertainty has seen private equity deal activity dry up in recent years.

The global secondaries market has grown from roughly USD 47 billion in 2014 to more than USD 100 billion today as fund investors and fund managers alike have embraced the secondary market as a tool to actively manage their respective portfolios.

Discover the growth opportunity in the private debt market, one of the fastest-growing segments in the capital markets.

Guests Barb Marder, CEO of the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI); Brooke Masters, US financial editor of the Financial Times; and Josh Cohen, Head of Client Solutions for PGIM DC Solutions, offer fresh perspectives on the future of DC and DB plans in a higher-rate environment.

A crucial element in the changing nature of private market investing revolves around data. Managers need to become more effective and efficient at managing, analysing, and reporting on the vast quantities of complex and unstructured data related to existing and prospective investments.

Improvements in these areas…

Outside developed markets, technology platforms are addressing huge unmet consumer needs through ecommerce and financial technology.

Michelle Handy, Chief Investment Officer of Direct Lending, discusses how optimistic market sentiment is impacting private credit supply-demand dynamics and deal terms, and provides her 2025 outlook for the private credit market and corporate fundamentals.

Nitin Gupta, Managing Partner and Co-CIO of Flexstone, believes that every investor in private assets should have an allocation to the lower middle market as it drives both portfolio diversification and alpha.

PGIM brought together experts from its affiliates to explore some of the opportunities featured in our 2025 Best Ideas report. In this webinar, our experts discuss AAA CLO ETFs, emerging market equities, and non-sponsored direct lending, among other topics.

Listen in as Steve Rosen and Bill Maclay, who co-managed portfolios and worked closely for more than two decades at Fidelity, dive into high-yield and private real estate lending, including: trends in credit conditions and property market fundamentals, plus strategies Bill believes offer strong risk-adjusted returns, and…

In this month’s First Eagle Alternative Credit update, Portfolio Manager and Senior Alternatives Strategist Larry Holzenthaler discusses where the team is seeing the most relative value amid tight credit spreads and what fixed income investors can expect from a potentially more hawkish Fed.

Stephane Blanchoz, Head of Alternative Solutions, and Andrew Craig, Co-head of Investment Insights Centre, discuss the mature U.S. market and the opportunity-rich European market for private credit. They also go into the benefits of investing through an asset manager and the outlook for 2025.

Investing in private credit – loans provided by institutions other than banks – is gaining ground as regulatory changes create opportunities. At the same time, more investors with long-term investment horizons are appreciating the suitability of investments in these loans to cover long-dated obligations such as pensions.

Health care services experts David Khtikian and Josh Sommerfeld join host Thomas Mucha to explore the industry's transformation, diving into consolidation, tech innovation, value-based care, and the benefit of their public/private collaboration.

In terms of macro drivers, interest rates have always been the key driver. We've seen this over the last two years when interest rates increased very substantially, very steeply, we saw a very deep downturn in terms of activity of private equity.

Markets are preparing for lower rates. Fixed income investors who need their portfolios to keep on generating enough income are having to evaluate their options. For those who don't have the stomach for high yield debt, the investment grade segment of the credit market has some interesting possibilities. Tune in to hear…