Limited Partners

How can GPs make co-investment work for them?

In a challenging fundraising environment, co-investment is a strong bargaining chip for LPs – but it can create headaches for fund managers.

Stepstone Group: Shifting portfolio construction fuels co-investment uptick

What are the pros and cons – and some of the challenges – of co-investments in private debt? Ariel Goldblatt, partner, and Marcel Schindler, partner and head of private debt, at StepStone Group, provide the answers.

Which LPs have an appetite for sharing?

If you’re wondering which investors might be keen on co-investments, here are six looking to partner up.

Arizona state pension cuts projected returns out of private credit

Even while maintaining allocation targets for the asset class, the $63bn system is lowering its assumed return to reflect a more competitive environment for credit funds

Liquidity seekers might just need a different vehicle

While there appears to be investor support for greater convergence of public and private debt, fund structuring issues need to be resolved.

Which strategies do LPs most demand in 2026?

We take an in-depth look at LP demand for private credit strategies, with several rising in popularity while others go out of favour.

UK’s Border to Coast hires lead PM for private debt, PE and climate

The local government pension pool, with an asset portfolio set to expand to £110bn, has completed its alternatives leadership team, Private Debt Investor has learned.

Standard Life adds two private debt PMs amid in-housing drive

The UK insurer, formerly Phoenix Group, is also seeking a new CIO and has reported 8.6% year-on-year growth of its asset portfolio to £317bn.

Despite headlines, private credit GPs wield more influence over LPs: Milken Institute panel

Major allocators suggest at Milken Institute event that private credit fund managers have “pendulum swinging back” to them after inflows from alternative capital sources