Siguler Guff Raises $500 Million for India Mid-Market Private Equity: What Accredited Investors Should Know

    Siguler Guff Raises $500 Million for India Mid-Market Private Equity: What Accredited Investors Should Know

    Siguler Guff & Company closed its Global Emerging Markets Growth Opportunities Fund II on August 19, 2026, at $500 million in combined capital commitments, more than double the $238 million its...

    August 21, 2026

    Kembangan Capital Partners' Reported $725 Million Raise: What It Signals for Asia-Focused LPs

    Kembangan Capital Partners' Reported $725 Million Raise: What It Signals for Asia-Focused LPs

    Singapore-based Kembangan Capital Partners has reportedly raised US$725 million in a first close for private equity and venture capital bets across Asia, anchored by an unnamed sovereign wealth fund,...

    August 21, 2026

    SEC Charges Spaventa and TSG Entities Over $74 Million Pre-IPO Markup Scheme: What Investors Should Learn

    SEC Charges Spaventa and TSG Entities Over $74 Million Pre-IPO Markup Scheme: What Investors Should Learn

    The SEC charged Andrew Spaventa and three companies he controlled, The Spaventa Group LLC, TSG Capital Advisors LLC, and TSG Alpha Partners LLC, with fraud on August 14, 2026, alleging a scheme that...

    August 21, 2026

    The GP Catch-Up Clause: How It Works and Why It Is So Heavily Negotiated

    The GP Catch-Up Clause: How It Works and Why It Is So Heavily Negotiated

    The GP catch-up clause is the provision in a private equity fund's limited partnership agreement that lets the general partner take a disproportionate share of profits, sometimes 100% of them, right...

    August 21, 2026

    The No-Fault Divorce Clause: How LPs Remove a GP Without Proving Cause

    The No-Fault Divorce Clause: How LPs Remove a GP Without Proving Cause

    A no-fault divorce clause, also called a no-fault removal provision, is the section of a private equity or venture capital limited partnership agreement that lets a supermajority of limited partners...

    August 21, 2026

    Hiive Review 2026: What This Pre-IPO Marketplace Actually Costs

    Hiive Review 2026: What This Pre-IPO Marketplace Actually Costs

    Hiive is a FINRA-registered broker-dealer that runs a live order book for buying and selling shares in pre-IPO companies like SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI. My verdict after digging through its Form...

    August 21, 2026

    Homeshares Review 2026: What Home Equity Investing Actually Means for Accredited Investors

    Homeshares Review 2026: What Home Equity Investing Actually Means for Accredited Investors

    Homeshares is the accredited-investor platform run by Nada, a Dallas fintech, that pools capital into a Delaware limited partnership called U.S. Home Equity Fund I , which buys home equity agreements...

    August 21, 2026

    The PE Secondaries Market Just Hit $240 Billion: What the Data Actually Shows

    The PE Secondaries Market Just Hit $240 Billion: What the Data Actually Shows

    The global private equity secondary market hit $240 billion in transaction volume in 2025, up 48 percent year over year and the largest total ever recorded, according to the Jefferies 2025 Global...

    August 21, 2026

    QuantumLight's $500M Bet: Can an Algorithm Out-Pick Human VCs?

    QuantumLight's $500M Bet: Can an Algorithm Out-Pick Human VCs?

    Nik Storonsky, the Revolut founder, has closed a $500 million second fund for QuantumLight, the venture firm where a proprietary AI model named Aleph, not a room of partners, decides where the money...

    August 21, 2026

    How LPs Actually Use the ILPA DDQ 2.0 to Vet a First-Time Fund Manager

    How LPs Actually Use the ILPA DDQ 2.0 to Vet a First-Time Fund Manager

    The ILPA Due Diligence Questionnaire 2.0 is the standardized 20-section form the Institutional Limited Partners Association publishes so LPs can evaluate a fund manager on the same terms every time,...

    August 21, 2026

    Co-Invest Rights Changed the Math. Your Allocation Story Has to Catch Up

    Co-Invest Rights Changed the Math. Your Allocation Story Has to Catch Up

    Co-Invest Rights Changed the Math. Your Allocation Story Has to Catch Up. Co-invest rights used to feel like a nice bonus you offered the right LP at the right moment. Not anymore. For a growing...

    August 20, 2026

    The “We Have Great Deal Flow” Line Is Losing Power Fast

    The “We Have Great Deal Flow” Line Is Losing Power Fast

    The “We Have Great Deal Flow” Line Is Losing Power Fast. Everybody says they have great deal flow now. That is exactly why the line has stopped working. For a while, “great deal flow” sounded like an...

    August 20, 2026