AI

Blackstone Strategic Partners anchored EQT’s new AI Infrastructure Fund. Once again, secondaries has created a blueprint for loftier goals.

While more capital is entering infra secondaries, much of it is being deployed by relatively new entrants in a market characterised by variety, the Paris-headquartered asset manager’s co-CEO tells affiliate title PE Hub.

GP counsel fees paid by both sides of a deal ranged from zero to around $79,000, according to research by AI workflow automation platform AltConvey.

While some software businesses are poised to become stronger on the back of a wave of AI innovation, there will be others that suffer or become obsolete, says managing director Jeff Keay.

The world may be reeling from geopolitical shock after geopolitical shock, but this uncertainty is only fuelling record-breaking secondaries activity.

AI may be poised to turbocharge secondaries underwriting, but digital marketplaces and tokenisation are yet to gain traction.

The key takeaways from Secondaries Investor’s inaugural survey of LPs, secondaries buyers, GPs and advisers.

AI-driven tech disruptions have raised questions over the sustainability of the recent pricing recovery in venture secondaries.

The rise of AI is driving an unprecedented build-out of data, compute and energy infrastructure. Private investors with deep operational expertise are uniquely positioned to generate long-term value from this mega-trend, says Brookfield’s Stewart Upson.