Private Equity Insights

Asia-Pacific Private Equity Report 2025

Most markets showed signs of bouncing back, but fund-raising remained in freefall.

Where Infrastructure Deals Are Heading

In the second of our two-part infrastructure series, we look at which subsectors are heating up and how opportunities across sectors are converging.

Private Equity

Infrastructure’s New Playbook

Infrastructure deals are evolving, and private capital could play a pivotal role in the space.

Private Equity

Inside Bain's 2025 Private Equity Report

Bain's Hugh MacArthur shares key insights from our 2025 Global Private Equity Report.

Private Equity

Dry Powder: Live from NEXUS 2025

Carlyle’s Brian Bernasek shares his 2025 market outlook, his thoughts on sector expertise, and how his team is rapidly deploying generative AI.

Private Equity

Bain & Company’s 2025 Global Private Equity Report: Executive Summary

We cover three overarching themes from this year’s report, including clear evidence of an industry recovery, continuing challenges for general partners, and strategies for winning the future.

Private Equity

Field Notes from the Generative AI Insurgency in Private Equity

Private equity is learning fast what works and what doesn’t when applying AI to create value. Here’s how firms are organizing themselves to win.

Private Equity

PE-Backed Carve-Outs Used to Be Reliable Winners. So What Happened?

Top-tier deals still deliver, but the average carve-out lags. Here’s how the best funds continue to win.

Private Equity

Wanted: Margin Growth in Software Investing

Private equity investors have relied almost exclusively on revenue growth and multiple expansion to power software buyout returns. That was nice, but those days are over.

Private Equity

Private Equity Outlook 2025: Is a Recovery Starting to Take Shape?

Dealmaking rebounded in 2024, but regaining fund-raising momentum may take longer.

Private Equity

This Time It’s Different: The Strategic Imperative in Private Equity

Structural changes are already altering the competitive landscape in alternatives. Do you have a plan to stay ahead over the coming decade?

Private Equity

Decarbonization That Works: Five Key Actions in Private Equity

Scope 1 and 2 emissions-reduction leaders focus on both decarbonization and value creation.

Financial Services

Value or Vanish: The Diverging Paths of North American Banks

Management’s equity story will make or break the bank’s standing with investors.

Private Equity

From Start-Ups to Scale-Ups with Insight Partners’ Deven Parekh

We ask how the Insight team invests across venture capital, growth equity, and buyouts.

Private Equity

Profile of an Industry Innovator with TPG’s Jim Coulter

Jim Coulter reflects on the legacy of his cofounder, David Bonderman, while asking whether private equity still makes room for unorthodox investors like him today.

Private Equity

The Leaders Strategy with GTCR’s Collin Roche

In an industry where management change-out rates hover around 50%, GTCR is a curious outlier.

Banking

What Investors Want from North American Banks

There’s a wide disparity among banks in convincing investors about prospects for profitable growth.

Private Equity

Macro Update: The Expanding Frontiers of Automation

From strawberry picking to bricklaying, automation is revolutionizing unexpected corners of the workforce.

Healthcare & Life Sciences

Healthcare Private Equity Market 2024: Year in Review and Outlook

Despite high borrowing costs and extended hold times in 2024, dealmaking roared ahead, marking the second-highest year on record.

Healthcare & Life Sciences

Why Mid-Market Healthcare Private Equity Firms Are Outperforming

Limited partners have embraced mid-market fund managers for their strong returns and industry expertise.

Healthcare & Life Sciences

Carve-Outs Open Up Value in a Tight Deal Market

Carve-outs give private equity firms access to undervalued assets while allowing public companies to divest slow-growth businesses.

Healthcare & Life Sciences

Maximizing Exit Value: An Imperative for Both Sellers and Buyers

Challenging market dynamics and macroeconomic factors are adding to an exit slowdown.

Healthcare & Life Sciences

An Optimistic Growth Outlook in Asia-Pacific

An evolving macroeconomic and geopolitical landscape has fueled investment diversification to India, Japan, and South Korea.

Private Equity

Macro Update: Navigating Inflation and Policy Shifts Under a New Administration

With inflation easing and public markets on the rise, the key questions are whether the Federal Reserve has overcorrected and how the new administration will impact the path to recovery.

Aerospace & Defense

Rethinking Defense: The Role of Private Capital

The defense sector needs private capital to fuel innovation, expand capacity, and improve affordability.

Private Equity

Tech Sector Update: Waiting for a Recovery

Private Equity

Game Changers in Generative AI with Hg’s David Toms

In part two of our interview series, we explore how generative AI is forcing a radical reconsideration of how software is priced and deployed at scale.

Private Equity

Wins in Generative AI with Hg’s David Toms

Hg’s head of research shares some of the more remarkable generative AI use cases and what they reveal about the future of work.

Private Equity

Creating Value with AI: The Race Is On in Private Equity

Private investors are already making strides to operationalize generative AI and test it in the portfolio.

Private Equity

Where Tech Meets Patient Care

Healthcare IT has the potential to not only make healthcare more efficient but also revolutionize how we deliver care.

Private Equity

Adapting to a Multipolar World with Bain Capital’s David Gross

In part two of our interview series, we explore how private equity can continue expanding its global footprint and what it will take to thrive in a multipolar world.

Private Equity

The Cross-Platform Playbook with Bain Capital’s David Gross

The co-managing partner of Bain Capital takes us inside of its remarkably diversified portfolio, where venture capital, private equity, real estate, and credit don’t just coexist—they actively reinforce each other.

Private Equity

Is Your Portfolio Company Ready to Run through the Finish Line?

When the exit dam finally breaks, sellers will need to show evidence of clear business momentum in what promises to be an overcrowded market.

Consumer Products

Signs of Hope in Private Equity Consumer Investing?

The resurgence of megadeals and the growth of platform building via smaller add-ons show that investors are finding opportunity at both ends of the spectrum.