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Venture Secondaries and AI: $80B+ in Liquidity Potential

From the Desk of Mario Giannini | Market Update

The Power Paradox: Balancing Supply and Demand

Private Real Estate: The Ascent of Alternatives

2025 Infrastructure Fundraising: The Rise of "Infrastructure 3.0"

Senior Credit Opportunities Fund Overview

The Truth About Secondaries: Separating Myth from Market Opportunity

Latin America's Untapped Infrastructure Potential

2025 Infrastructure Market Overview

Infrastructure Secondaries: Bridging the Gap

2025 Real Estate Market Overview Report

Housing Demand Boom, High-Cost Debt Gloom: The Dichotomy of Multifamily

How to Construct Portfolios with an ELTIF

The Intersection of Private Markets Valuations and Technology

From the Desk of Mario Giannini | Market Update

Good PIK vs. Bad PIK

One of the hottest topics in private credit right now is paid-in-kind interest, also known as PIK. Managing Director of Direct Credit Investments Emily Nomeir discusses the benefits and potential challenges of PIK for private markets investors.

What's Driving Private Infrastructure Growth?

Has the Golden Age of Private Credit Lost its Shine?

SS&C's Day of Thought Leadership: Trends and Challenges in Reinsurance Investment - Insurer Insights for 2025

InsuranceAUM.com recently joined the Day of Thought Leadership event focusing on reinsurance investment trends and challenges.

What Have You Done for Me Lately?

Key Infrastructure Themes for the Year Ahead

Top Secondary Investment Trends with Keith Brittain

Portfolio Construction Volume III: Risky Business

Episode 256: Best Practices for Portfolio Construction in Private Assets

Key practices for insurance investors constructing private asset portfolios. Explore strategies, risks, and data-driven insights to optimize allocation with Hamilton Lane experts.

Customizing Private Markets Portfolios for Success in Asia's Dynamic Market

Digitize Your Diligence Process: How private market investors can leverage technology to find their next investment opportunity

Mid-Year Private Credit Viewpoints

Top Technology Trends in the Private Markets Part II

Are Positive Environmental and Social Outcomes in Investing Reserved for Philanthropists?

Road To Nowhere | Mid-Year Update: Investors Still Finding Their Footing on the Path Forward

Private Markets Made Human | View From the Top

Newly appointed Co-CEOs Juan Delgado and Erik Hirsch give PMMH an inside look into their new roles and how they are thinking about the strategic direction of the firm in a rapidly evolving industry.

Portfolio Construction Vol. II: Assembling the Building Blocks

What are the building blocks to a strategically constructed private markets portfolio? Return, risk, liquidity and the data are all needed to make informed decisions.

Private Markets Made Human | To Invest or Not to Invest

How do you decide whether to invest or not to invest in the current market environment? Hear from Executive Co-Chairman Mario Giannini as he dives into the hot topics coming out of this year’s Market Overview.

Hamilton Lane 2024 Market Overview

Informed by our expansive database, research capabilities and industry expertise, Hamilton Lane’s annual Market Overview offers a comprehensive and unique perspective on the private markets investment landscape to help navigate what lies ahead for the industry.

Portfolio Construction Vol. I: A Foundation for Success

With the nearly $3.8 trillion of capital flowing into the alternative asset class, the case for including private assets in an investment portfolio is compelling, especially when executed strategically.

The Middle Seat: A Compelling Time for Middle-Market Buyouts

In most contexts, the middle seat is perhaps one of the most loathed places to be. However, if you are facing an investable landscape filled with growing uncertainty – and are (finally) convinced that trying to time the market is a bad idea – then a heightened focus on the middle-market buyout segment may be warranted. Vice Chairman Drew Schardt explains why middle-market buyouts have the potential to enhance returns in a diversified portfolio.

Episode 172: Best Opportunities in Private Markets with Drew Schardt of Hamilton Lane

Drew Schardt is the Vice Chairman, Head of Investment Strategy, and Head of Direct Private Equity at Hamilton Lane.

Private Markets Made Human | Breaking Ground on Private Real Estate Investing

What is the value of investing in private real estate? And how does it compare to publicly listed REITs? Learn about private real estate investing and how it has the potential to produce attractive returns with low volatility and act as an inflation hedge to diversify your portfolio.

Breaking Barriers: The Rise and Staying Power of Emerging Managers

Head of Emerging Managers & Diverse-led Investments Katie Moore discusses the evolution of investing in emerging managers, their importance to the private markets ecosystem and how it is built into our firm's DNA.

Private Markets Made Human | Leveraging Data & Tech to Unlock the Private Markets

Griff Norville discusses how his team is digitizing a cutting-edge private market investment toolkit – from the due diligence process, to reporting, and beyond.

Private Markets Made Human | Connecting Emerging Managers to Core Portfolios

Head of Emerging & Diverse Manager Platform Katie Moore discusses the importance of investing in emerging managers, and how it is built into our firm's DNA.

Private Markets Made Human Podcast: Episode 7 | Nayef Perry and Emily Nomeir - The Golden Age of Credit

Private credit has outperformed public credit for 21 of the last 22 years. Leaders on our Direct Credit team discuss the trends they are seeing, and why they believe this asset class is having it's 'moment.'

Private Markets Made Human Episode 6 | Bryan Jenkins - Pulling Back the Market Overview Curtain

Co-Head of Portfolio Management Group Bryan Jenkins pulls back the curtain on the process of building the annual Market Overview.

Hamilton Lane Strategies

Private Credit's Seniority in a Typical Capital Structure

The typical capital structure of a company is comprised of both debt and equity. Co-Head of Direct Credit, Nayef Perry, explores the benefits of senior debt in this example.

What Does Secondary Market Growth Mean for You?

Few corners of private markets can match the recent growth of secondaries. Once the province of distressed sellers and “zombie funds," secondaries now involve the bluest of blue-chip LPs and GPs (see here and here). This evolution has helped annual volume rocket from $20 billion in 2008 to well more than $100 billion in 2021 and 2022.

The Truth Revealed: The perception that private equity is inherently riskier than public equities doesn’t always match up with reality

Once considered speculative, private markets continue to evolve, especially as the structural hurdles for ultra-high-net-worth (UHNW) investors have come down. Still, no matter the level of expertise or the market environment, investors and advisors who understand this segment of the market are well positioned to make informed and comprehensive decisions about their portfolios.

Secondary Market Investing: 10 Themes for 2023

If you look at the secondary market today compared to a little over a decade ago in 2010, there was about $10 billion in secondary volume. We were coming out of the Global Financial Crisis, and people were using the secondary market when they were distressed. It was a small industry and there was barely any press around secondaries.

2023 Hamilton Lane Market Overview

Inflation in both the U.S. and Europe (really, throughout the world) is running at levels not seen in a generation. There is inflation across all sectors impacting both goods and services.

The Truth Revealed: The private markets universe is less concentrated and larger today than any other time in history

Once considered speculative, private markets continue to evolve, especially as the structural hurdles for ultra-high-net-worth (UHNW) investors have come down. Still, no matter the level of expertise or market environment, investors and advisors who understand this segment of the market will be in a much better position to make informed and comprehensive decisions about their portfolios.