• MSCI flagged private markets at an inflection point in its State of Private Markets 2026 report, citing a widening transparency gap as the asset class nears one-fifth of large institutional portfolios while investors still rely on delayed, inconsistent data.
• Private credit faced an expectations reset, with redemptions in semi-liquid evergreen funds and rising borrower stress testing confidence in valuations and liquidity.
• Liquidity constraints persisted across private equity, with slower exits and longer holding periods limiting distributions, weighing on fundraising, driving more secondary market activity.
• AI-related assets accounted for about 16% of global private equity, with infrastructure build-out expected to require trillions of dollars of additional capital.
• Report pointed to deeper integration of public and private markets, with more investors using total-portfolio and factor-based approaches to assess exposures, valuations, risk.

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