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Dividend Recaps Reconsidered: When the Distribution Is Actually a Decision capital structure debt dividend recap dpi leverage lp gp value creation Jul 30, 2026

The dividend recapitalization has returned to the private equity playbook with renewed intensity over the past eighteen months. The reason is not subtle. With exits slowed, DPI weak, and LPs pressing ...

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Fund-of-One Structures: Customization at the Cost of Standardization fund of one fund structure governance lp gp separately managed accounts sma value creation Jul 27, 2026

A decade ago, separately managed accounts and fund-of-one structures in private equity were rare exceptions, used mostly for the largest sovereign wealth funds and a small number of strategic LPs that...

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Permanent Capital Vehicles: The Patient Money Reshaping the Mid-Market family office fund structure hold period lp gp mid-market permanent capital value creation Jul 23, 2026

The structure that used to define private equity, a closed end fund with a five to seven year hold mandate and a defined exit pressure, is no longer the only structure in the market. Over the past fiv...

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The DPI Reckoning: Why Distributed-to-Paid-In Is Now the Metric That Matters dpi exits fundraising irr lp gp moic performance metrics value creation Jul 20, 2026

For most of the modern private equity era, IRR was the metric that defined fund performance. It was reported on the cover page of every quarterly update. It was the headline statistic in every fundrai...

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NAV Lending Reconsidered: A Tool That Solves One Problem and Creates Another dpi fund finance liquidity lp gp nav lending secondaries value creation Jul 16, 2026

NAV lending has moved from niche financial product to standard liquidity infrastructure inside private equity in less than five years. Most established sponsors now have at least one NAV facility on t...

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