Curated news across firms, funds and deals — updated as our analysts add it.
Jul ’26 was the most active month with 32 tracked items. Deal leads this view (8 of 30).
Everstone completed the acquisition of Qiar, formerly Schenck Process, from Blackstone and plans continued investment in engineering and innovation.
Invesco published its assessment of private credit market conditions, emphasizing manager selection, underwriting quality and differences among evergreen and other private credit structures.
Mubadala became a strategic investor in Power Factors, a Vista portfolio company. The investment is intended to accelerate global growth of Power Factors' renewable energy software platform.
Legal & General announced the appointment of Rob Groves as Chief Investment Officer (CIO) for its Institutional Retirement business. In this role, he will oversee the investment strategy and portfolio management for the Institutional Retirement division, supporting the firm's long-term retirement investment objectives and capital deployment across institutional assets.
Following the PSUS transaction, Pershing Square began deploying newly raised capital into additional large cap investments while reducing several legacy positions.
JPMAM launched JPMorgan Managed Futures Plus ETF (JFPP) on Nasdaq, expanding its alternatives and multi asset product offering.
JPMAM launched a second tokenized money market fund on Ethereum, expanding its Morgan Money tokenized liquidity offering.
Q1 2026 premium income reached €17.0 B, up 14.5%; net inflows were €5.7 B.
Pershing Square's parent company completed its IPO alongside the PSUS offering, creating a publicly traded corporate structure for the investment manager.
Pershing Square USA completed its IPO and concurrent private placement as part of a combined transaction with Pershing Square Inc. The aggregate PSUS offering size was $5 billion.
Crescent highlighted more than 35 years of credit investing across multiple cycles, reinforcing its disciplined corporate-credit positioning.
Fortress agreed to purchase up to $1.25 billion of consumer loans originated through Upstart's platform over a 15-month period.
Invesco Real Estate announced the acquisition of approximately 29,760 productive acres of commercial timberland in Louisiana through Campbell Global.
Campbell Global completed its acquisition of approximately 29,760 productive acres of timberland in Louisiana.
Sagimet completed a $175 M equity financing with Farallon among participating investors.
StepStone completed the final close of StepStone Credit Opportunities Fund II with more than $1.58 billion, substantially exceeding its $750 million target. The fund focuses predominantly on private-credit secondaries and co-investments.
Blackstone reported first-quarter 2026 financial results, with assets under management exceeding US$1.3 trillion, supported by fundraising, deployment, and realizations across its investment businesses
Adams Street Partners closed Co-Investment Fund VI, a Private Equity co-investments strategy fund, at $2.5 billion USD. Final close date was 22 April 2026.
Vista and Google Cloud announced a strategic partnership to provide Vista's portfolio companies with access to Google's AI technologies, including Gemini models, AI Hypercomputer, and enterprise AI tools, to accelerate AI adoption across the portfolio.
Nuveen Real Estate acquired Munich LEN Business Park, a multi-let logistics and commercial business park located in Munich, Germany. The acquisition expands Nuveen's European real estate portfolio and aligns with its strategy of investing in high-quality industrial and logistics assets in key urban markets.
Hired affordable housing investment veterans Russell Ginise and Kyle Winning to expand affordable housing capabilities. Enhances affordable housing investment platform.
Everstone partnered with the founding promoters to create a regulated-markets specialty-formulations platform spanning the US, Europe and other markets.
Pemberton continued expanding its North American investor coverage while maintaining its European private-credit investment focus
Crescent received a £450 M U.S. direct-lending mandate from U.K. pension fund Nest, expanding its institutional private-credit mandate base.
Crescent received a £450M U.S. direct-lending mandate from U.K. pension fund Nest, expanding Crescent's institutional private-credit business base.
Adams Street Partners closed Private Credit III, a Direct Lending strategy fund, at $7.5 billion USD (asterisk noted on figure). Final close date was 13 April 2026.
Third Point abandoned its planned proxy fight and exited its CoStar position, concluding that its original investment thesis no longer remained sufficiently compelling.
Third Point decided not to proceed with a proposed proxy fight at CoStar Group and fully exited its investment. The decision followed Third Point's assessment that its original investment thesis was no longer viable. The campaign had focused on reducing spending, improving capital allocation and refocusing CoStar on its core commercial real estate business.
CAA filed its 2025 Universal Registration Document with the AMF.
Blackstone announced the final close of its flagship opportunistic credit fund at more than US$10 billion, reaching its hard cap and expanding its opportunistic credit platform.