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This is Scott Becker with the Becker Business and the Becker Private Equity Podcast. We try each day to bring you a business and market insights Episodes one to two short episodes plus typically an interview with a brilliant business leader. Today's discussion is five private equity key trends heading into 2026 so so here's five of the trends that we're watching like first, last year was a tough, tough year for US fundraising for private equity funds. Just it's been a tough year, tough few years for exits and that's led fundraising to be softer as well as people are concerned to double down on their private equity investments until they start seeing returns from their last set of funds. Second, overall US Exit values jumped a lot this past year, but it's really somewhat misleading. It's really an 8020 type rule. A small percentage of big, big IPOs, big big deal deals led to some really big exits, but overall deal activity at the mid market was slower and softer and exits there were softer. Third, we're seeing a bigger shift towards infrastructure, healthcare and financial services. Still a lot of investing in technology as well. Fourth, as we noted a second ago, mega funds dominated both the fundraising market and the deal market. We'll see how that continues to play out, even though a couple of the mega funds really struggled from a market return standpoint. Finally. Fifth, we've seen more and more funds rely on continuation deals, special purpose deals, other vehicles, recaps to find liquidity and keep their limited partners happy at a time where exit multiples and exits have not been as fast and furious as people would like them to be. And the bolt on market's not finished wrong either. A couple other big notes Blackstone Blackstone, the biggest of the big was down nearly 9% last year. KKR was down nearly 13%. The Carlyle Group outperformed the sector and rose nearly 20%. Again, five key private equity trends. Thank you for listening to the Becker Business and the Becker Private Equity Podcast if you get a chance. If you respond to this podcast, you're the first person to respond to me by text we'll send you a $100Amazon gift certificate. You have to text and say Private Equity Podcast. Text 773-766-5322 thank you very much for listening to the Becker Private Equity and the Becker Business Podcast.
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