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Markets Group is the leading platform for the asset allocator community — delivering forums, interviews, news, and research that keep conversations alive and decisions informed.

Our mission is clear ➜ to build communities of investors committed to the power of peer insight.

For CIOs, GPs & LPs, wealth managers, and institutional investors, we provide real-time insights year-round, connecting the global investment community from New York to London, Dubai to Sydney, São Paulo to Singapore.

A trusted space where relationships evolve into allocations.

✨ Content. Connect. Allocate.

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CPP Investments has appointed Shauna Miller managing director of private equity funds.

Lauren Bailey has the details: https://t.co/VspZoRDB8h

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Private equity firm 3i Group has acquired a majority stake in French nutrition and supplements company Laboratoire Nutergia, purchasing a 51% interest as part of a transaction aimed at accelerating the business’s next phase of growth. Financial terms were not disclosed, although 3i indicated its investment falls within its typical range of €100 million to €150 million.

🔥 Join leading investors at the 9th Private Equity Europe Forum on September 15-16, in London: https://t.co/0BkkdrS2R4

As part of the deal, the Lagarde family will retain a significant minority stake and continue to play an active role in the business. Nutergia operates a manufacturing facility in France and has established operations in Spain and Belgium, while exporting approximately one-quarter of its production across Europe and Asia.

3i plans to support the company’s growth through deeper market penetration, product innovation, enhanced digital capabilities and international expansion. Key target markets include Spain, Portugal, Belgium and Asia, where demand for premium health and wellness products continues to grow.

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Dutch pension fund Pensioenfonds Metalektro (PME) entered 2026 with a funding ratio around 125%, positioning the €59B fund for a sweeping transition to a new pension scheme set for January 2027, while its chairman flagged a turbulent global backdrop that demands careful navigation.

💥 Connect with European institutional investors balancing strong funding positions with market uncertainty at the Germany Institutional Forum on December 7-8, in Frankfurt: https://t.co/Yz8ivQPgnt

In a press release, Alae Laghrich, chairman of PME’s executive board, noted the funding position was a “strong starting point” in a tumultuous world. “Though we are reserving judgement at this stage: the year still has a long way to go and developments are following each other in rapid succession.”

Muskan Arora writes: https://t.co/01DzwJuILn

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Why are high-net-worth investors leaning harder into real assets right now?

Hyde Sun, APAC Head of Investment Consultant and Alternatives at Cathay United Bank Private Banking, has a clear answer - and a sharp read on where the next opportunities are emerging.

Ahead of the Alternative Investment Summit Hong Kong, Sun joined @CourtMcQuade for a preview of "Real Assets - Capturing Value Across Energy, Real Estate and Infrastructure," the panel he joins in Hong Kong.

🔥 See every speaker and session topic - request the agenda: https://t.co/faMH5lOaok

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What happens to private markets when the macro ground keeps shifting under allocators' feet?

Higher rates, tighter liquidity, changing valuations - the conditions allocators built their private equity, private credit, and real assets exposure around have all moved at once. Colin Chau, CEO of Quintar Capital, is leading the conversation on what comes next.

Ahead of the Alternative Investment Summit Hong Kong, Chau joined @CourtMcQuade for a preview of "Private Markets in a Shifting Macro Landscape" - the panel he moderates in Hong Kong.

🔥 Request the agenda to get the full speaker line up and session topics: https://t.co/faMH5lOaok

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Singapore sovereign investors GIC and Temasek participated in Anthropic’s $65B Series H funding round, joining a group of institutional and technology investors that valued the artificial intelligence company at $965B.

💥 Request the agenda for ALTSSG, October 22, in Singapore: https://t.co/bX5LuvAnfk

The financing was led by Altimeter Capital Management, Dragoneer Investment Group, Greenoaks Capital Partners and Sequoia Capital and included participation from Capital Group, Coatue, D1 Capital Partners, ICONIQ Capital and XN Capital. Other investors included Baillie Gifford & http://Co., Blackstone, Brookfield http://Corp., http://D.E. Shaw Ventures, DST Global, Fidelity Management & Research http://Co., General Catalyst Partners, Insight Partners, Jane Street Europe, Lightspeed Venture Partners and MGX Fund Management Ltd.

Muskan Arora has more: https://t.co/owB9OQmfpz

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Star players win matches. Process wins seasons.🏆

In systematic equity investing, long-term success depends less on reacting to short-term market moves and more on applying a consistent, repeatable framework across cycles.

This session covers:
➜ Why process and discipline drive long-term outcomes, in markets and in elite sport
➜ How a research-led framework combines diversified factor exposures and risk management
➜ Why a repeatable approach beats reacting to short-term noise

Patrick Vosskamp, Co-Head of Portfolio Management, Systematic Equity at Allianz Global Investors, breaks it down.

🔥 REGISTER: https://t.co/9VnSABDDbv

📅 DATE: Tuesday, June 16, 2026
🕘 TIME: 10:00 AM BST / 11:00 AM CEST

For fund distributors and professional investors in eligible regions only.

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The biggest financial risk from a climate event is usually not the damaged building. It is everything that stops working around it.

Workforce cannot get in. Logistics stall. Utilities go down. Operations halt. Those cascading disruptions hit revenue and valuation long before a hazard map shows a problem.

Climate X breaks down why indirect disruption, not direct asset damage, is the climate risk private equity is underpricing - and how to quantify it.

🔥 REGISTER: https://t.co/UFGkgV08DN
📅 DATE: Wednesday, June 24, 2026
🕘TIME: 11:00 AM EDT

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As institutional investors contend with market volatility stemming from high interest rates, inflation concerns and geopolitical uncertainty, many are increasingly confronting a difficult trade-off: whether to position portfolios for resilience across a broad range of outcomes or continue leaning into a market rally driven by a narrow group of companies.

💥 Engage directly with institutional investors advancing TPA in uncertain markets at the Canada West Institutional Forum, October 22, in Vancouver: https://t.co/IbAMSDoTN2

CPP Investments is one pension fund that has spent roughly two decades evolving a total portfolio approach, a framework designed to evaluate investments based on their contribution to total fund outcomes rather than traditional asset-class silos or benchmark-driven allocations.

Exclusive with Lauren Bailey: https://t.co/uwHBSiaPwi

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What's on our Thursday Investor Outlook?
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➡️ CPP Investments CIO Ed Cass shares his insights on absolute returns and not to benchmark chasing
➡️ People's moves on Aware Super, HOOPP, and BNY Wealth
➡️ AkademikerPension bars SpaceX ahead of expected Nasdaq IPO

And many more.

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The Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds is considering a commitment of up to $300M to an opportunistic credit strategy focused on sourcing proprietary and less competitive private market investments.

💥 Engage directly with institutional investors capitalizing on opportunistic credit at the 13 Annual New England Institutional Forum, September 10, in Boston: https://t.co/MMstmj6jvw

The investment would go toward Sixth Street’s TAO 6.0 fund, which is designed to invest flexibly across capital structures, asset classes and transaction types, according to materials from a recent Investment Advisory Committee meeting. The strategy would enable Sixth Street to pursue opportunities created by market dislocations, complexity and structural inefficiencies.

Lauren Bailey has more: https://t.co/poVeIY59KT

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The Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP) has appointed Damien Steel as chief technology, data and AI officer, a newly created role that reflects the growing importance of digital capabilities in investment decision-making, risk management and pension operations.

Lauren Bailey has the details: https://t.co/0dWPhhW5ss

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B2B events company Hyve Group has agreed to be acquired by private equity firm Hellman & Friedman (H&F) from Providence Equity Partners and Searchlight Capital Partners, marking a new chapter in the company’s growth strategy.

🔥 Connect with private equity leaders driving growth through strategic acquisitions at the 9th Private Equity Europe Forum, September 15-16, in London: https://t.co/bXEKebuRl3

Under its current leadership, Hyve has delivered three consecutive years of double-digit organic revenue growth and grown EBITDA to more than $100 million. The company has also completed seven acquisitions, launched five new events and invested heavily in technology to enhance customer engagement and year-round ecosystem building.

The transaction is expected to close before the end of the year, with Hyve already on track to achieve its three-year “GO27” growth and optimization strategy ahead of schedule.

Read more: https://t.co/2n0azA1Ggb

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We are pleased to have our sponsors joining #ALTSHK on June 11 in Hong Kong. Be sure to connect with their teams throughout the event to discuss market trends, explore new opportunities, and exchange ideas with fellow industry professionals.

💥 Secure the last remaining spots today: https://t.co/wbOHIRlPtR

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Stephen Biggs, CFA, CAIA, CFP®, Head of Alternative Investments at The Mather Group, LLC, joined @CourtMcQuade From the Sidelines at our Private Wealth Northern California Forum, his fourth Markets Group conversation with us.

In this one, he covers:

➜ Where he's finding alpha right now
➜ How he's really accessing the growth in AI
➜ The private credit call he made back in March in his #ALTSLA interview, and whether, nearly three months later, it held up

🔥 Request the Private Wealth #Seattle agenda to see the full speaker lineup and sessions, June 11 at the Four Seasons: https://t.co/H4nW2GBcpe

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Last chance to secure your spot for ALTSNY!
🔥 Request the agenda: https://t.co/nwBX3Lil8d

Only 2 weeks until #ALTSNY takes over Convene on June 17, 2026 where top industry leaders will take the conversations with networking that is anything but alternative. Topics including:
▪️Positioning for the next cycle
▪️Building resilient portfolios with private markets
▪️Opportunities in private equity and the expanding secondaries market

💥 June 17 | Convene Brookfield Place

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As private equity markets evolve, are investors rethinking where the next decade of alpha will come from?
🔥 Request the agenda to find out: https://t.co/YGDK1Y8Iv8

Join Sarah Hillegass, CFA of DePaul University as she shares perspectives on how investors are positioning across private equity primaries, secondaries, and emerging managers in today's changing market environment. Don't miss #ALTSCHI, July 20-21, in Chicago.

ALTSCHI is developed by CFA Society Chicago, CAIA Association, and Markets Group.

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📣 TODAY, June 3rd at 11:00 AM ET

Life settlements deliver income with little correlation to public markets - and most HNW portfolios still have zero exposure.

In 3 hours, Anne Buchanan of Preston Capital breaks down:
➜ How the secondary and tertiary markets work
➜ How policies are valued and pooled as longevity assets
➜ The key risks before allocating: longevity, liquidity, litigation, cost-of-insurance

Preston manages over $3 billion in this specialized market. This is the hour to understand it.

🔥 REGISTER: https://t.co/pNTDhJJZzZ
📅 Accessing Life Settlements in HNW Portfolios | June 3 at 11:00 AM ET

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Where do the Nordics’ leading allocators gather for real investment conversations?
💥 Request the agenda: https://t.co/6jKXEWrqHM

Join us in two weeks as the Nordics Investors Retreat brings together family offices, private banks, pension funds, insurers, foundations, and wealth managers from across Norway, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, and Iceland.

Don't miss out on June 16-18, in Norway.

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Private equity firm J.C. Flowers has completed the acquisition of the French subsidiary of Italy’s Monte dei Paschi di Siena, marking the finalization of a transaction first agreed in 2025. Financial terms were not disclosed.

💥 Explore how private equity investors are reshaping financial services businesses at the 9th Private Equity Europe Forum, September 15-16, in London: https://t.co/yY2LMkkj03

The deal follows Monte dei Paschi’s commitment to divest foreign operations under a restructuring plan tied to its state bailout and subsequent reprivatization. The French business managed approximately €1 billion in assets and had largely paused new business activities while awaiting regulatory approvals and completion of the sale.

Ilinca Rosetti, Operating Partner at J.C. Flowers, said the firm’s banking expertise and operational capabilities position it to execute a significant transformation of the business and strengthen its presence in the French financial services market.

Read more: https://t.co/UlBagu7Oue

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