Jessica Hamlin
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 12
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- Sep 17, 2026
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- Jul 20, 2026
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How Alpine and Shore Capital build CEOs instead of hiring them (opens the original)
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Become a CEO after your MBA: that's the promise some private equity firms are using to recruit top operating talent. This promise propels the best and brightest into top executive roles without requiring them to climb the corporate ladder, underpinned by the belief that cultivating talent is a better bet than making semi-blind bets on external hires. Alpine Investors and Shore Capital Partners have each built separate pipelines to funnel operational talent, aiming to equip executives to take cha
Four charts: Private capital fundraising remains bleak through H1 2026 (opens the original)
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Allocators' hands remain tied, and private market fundraising is down across almost all strategies. With the exception of private debt, all private market strategies tracked by PitchBook experienced year-over-year declines for the 12-month period ending June 30, 2026, according to PitchBook's Q2 2026 Global Private Market Fundraising report. With private equity exits and distributions down industry-wide, limited partners are left with the choice of offloading holdings onto the secondary market,
KKR's 'Berkshire Hathaway' strategy bears fruit with $17B USI sale (opens the original)
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KKR has made its largest exit from its Strategic Holdings portfolio, representing a significant step towards the firm's ambition of creating a "mini Berkshire Hathaway." The New York alternatives manager has agreed to sell USI Insurance Services, one of the largest insurance brokerage and consulting firms in the US, to Aon for around $17 billion, the firm announced on Monday. KKR acquired the Valhalla, New York-based business in 2017 for $4.3 billion. It invested more money in 2020, 2023 and 202
Why large evergreen funds might be the losers in VC (opens the original)
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Growth in the evergreen fund market is being driven by the largest listed alternative managers. But there are asset classes in which size is likely to be a weakness rather than a strength in catering to individual investors. This, at least, is what venture capital and growth equity manager Fairway Capital Management is banking on. Founded in 2020 by a group of former executives with Adams Street Partners, led by former COO Kevin Callahan, the Chicago manager raised two venture-capital funds of f
Aerospace and defense PE exit value already beat last year's total (opens the original)
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The total exit value of PE-backed companies in the aerospace and defense sector has already surpassed last year's total, jumping from $17.7 billion at year-end 2025 to $26.8 billion in the first half of 2026, according to PitchBook's Q2 2026 Aerospace and Defense Report. The market was carried by five major public listings in the sector, compared with zero in Q2 2025. The largest was the June listing of DPC Holdings, a UK-headquartered specialist manufacturer of metal parts for jet engines, whic
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