Amid a turbulent year, is the industry poised for more of the same or a sudden turnaround?

[This episode originally aired on December 7, 2023] Stanford's Ashby Monk studies the inner workings of pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, endowments and foundations — in short all of those LPs that sit somewhere in between the public and private sectors. Today on Dry Powder, I ask him to take us inside the $140 trillion universe of long-term investing and help us understand what these organizations are optimizing for.

At a moment of heightened uncertainty, we reflect on the industry’s watershed moments.

A 30-year veteran shares why the secondary market’s growth continues to surprise him.

We ask a leading provider of NAV loans about the enthusiasm and the skepticism around a growing trend.

In the second of our two-part series, we ask the Co-CEO of Hamilton Lane how they’re building an analytics engine that can serve both institutional and individual investors.

Hamilton Lane's Co-CEO takes us inside the rapid buildout of private market infrastructure.

In part two of our infrastructure series, we take a closer look at which sub-sectors are heating up, and how opportunities across energy and tech are converging.

Infrastructure deals are evolving, and private capital could play a pivotal role in the space.

Brian Bernasek, Co-Head of Americas Corporate Private Equity at Carlyle, shares his 2025 market outlook, how he thinks about sector expertise and how his team is rapidly deploying genAI.

We cover three overarching themes from this year’s report, including clear evidence of an industry recovery, continuing challenges for GP’s, and strategies for winning the future.

We asked the managing director of Insight Partners how they invest across venture capital, growth equities and buyouts.

Jim Coulter reflects on the legacy of his co-founder, David Bonderman, while asking whether the industry still makes room for unorthodox investors like him today.

In an industry where management change out rates hover around 50%, GTCR stands out as a remarkable exception.

From strawberry-picking to brick-laying, automation is revolutionizing unexpected corners of the workforce.

With inflation easing and public markets on the rise, the key questions are whether the Federal Reserve has overcorrected and how the new administration will impact the path to recovery.

A few big ticket deals have raised hopes of a rebound, but investors are still wondering when deal activity will return to normal, or what normative will even look like in the coming year.

In part two of our interview series, we explore how generative AI is prompting a radical reconsideration of how software is priced and deployed at scale.

Hg’s head of research shares some of the more remarkable use cases of generative AI and what they reveal about the future of work.

Healthcare IT has the potential to not only make the industry more efficient but also to revolutionize patient care.