Partners Group's Q2 2025 Private Markets Chartbook reveals a significant shift in the investment landscape as policy-driven volatility creates strategic buying opportunities for nimble private market investors.

Private market assets grew at an 11.1% compound annual growth rate from 2014 to 2024, far outpacing the broader asset management industry's 6.5% growth, according to BCG's Global Asset Management Report 2025. Semi-liquid funds have grown fivefold to over $300 billion since 2020, as asset managers race to package private investments for retail clients who control 48% of global assets.

As private credit faces cash flow pressures and valuation questions, interconnections with banks create growing systemic risks in an increasingly fragile financial landscape.

Asia-Pacific private equity markets showed tentative recovery signs in 2024, with deal value increasing 11% while fundraising plunged to a 10-year low, according to Bain & Company's Asia-Pacific Private Equity Report 2025. India emerged as the region's star performer, recording double-digit growth in both deal value and count.

OpenAI's massive $40 billion financing helped push Q1 2025 venture capital investment to $91.5 billion across an estimated 3,990 deals, according to PitchBook-NVCA's Venture Monitor Q1 2025 report. This represents an 18.5% quarterly increase in deal value, reaching the highest level since Q1 2022, despite ongoing market uncertainty.

PitchBook's Q1 2025 US PE Breakdown reveals robust dealmaking despite growing economic concerns, with Q1 deal value reaching $259.7 billion, up 24.6% QoQ and 36.1% YoY. Deal count remained steady at 2,263, though exits are struggling to keep pace with the massive backlog of 3,800 PE-backed companies awaiting liquidity.

According to the Financial Conduct Authority's recent multi-firm review of private market valuation practices, while many firms demonstrate good practices, significant gaps remain in conflict management, independence, and handling of ad hoc valuations during market disruptions.

S&P Global Market Intelligence's 2025 Private Markets Playbook reveals private equity and venture capital partners expect improved deal activity and fundraising this year, with megadeals reaching a three-year high in 2024 and AI investments surging 70% year-over-year to $83 billion. Lower interest rates are expected to unlock further deal activity as the valuation gap narrows between buyers and sellers. Venture capitalists have tripled their investments in late-stage AI compa

Despite a slowdown in private markets over the past three years, Schroders Capital's Q2 2025 outlook suggests valuations and yields are now attractive, though significant risks remain from US policy changes affecting trade, immigration, and ESG priorities.

McKinsey's latest research reveals Europe needs a massive €800 billion in annual investments by 2030 to close its widening competitiveness gap with the United States, with private capital poised to provide at least €100 billion more annually than current levels to make this transformation possible.

European PE adapts to geopolitical tensions with smaller deals while fundraising stays robust, especially in middle-market and growth segments. RetryClaude does not have internet access. Links provided may not be accurate or up to date.Claude can make mistakes. Please double-check responses.

With AI capturing 20% of all venture deals and mega-rounds surging, 2025's VC market shows unprecedented capital concentration despite fewer deals. RetryClaude does not have internet access. Links provided may not be accurate or up to date.Claude can make mistakes. Please double-check responses.

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Commercial real estate recovering from 2023 correction with transaction volumes increasing, while private credit helps fill bank void.