PEI's Data Dive: How LPs' investment priorities are shifting

PEI's Data Dive: How LPs' investment priorities are shifting

From Private Equity Spotlight by PEI Group

April 9, 2026 · 25 min · Episode 264

About this episode

The episode discusses the shifting investment priorities of LPs in private equity based on recent survey data.

Over the past year, LP appetite for private equity has shifted noticeably. Private Equity International’s latest LP Perspectives Study revealed that 38 percent of respondents plan to invest more in private equity in 2026, which is down from 45 percent in 2025. Meanwhile, 12 percent plan to invest less, up from 7 percent the prior year. What is driving this change? To unpack the data, PEI Group senior content producer Evie Rusman is joined by Hong Kong bureau chief Alex Lynn and senior research manager Evie Taylor to analyse the findings and discuss how these trends are shaping LP sentiment towards private equity. This is the first episode in PEI’s new miniseries Data Dive, where we'll dig into PEI's proprietary data, surveys and rankings, as well as recent market data sets, to understand what investors and fund managers are thinking, where capital is moving and how the asset class is evolving. Stay tuned for the next episode, which will provide insight into affiliate title Secondaries Investor’s inaugural global survey of the secondaries market.

People in this episode

Host: Evie Rusman

Guests: Alex Lynn, Evie Taylor

Topics covered

  • LP investment priorities
  • private equity trends
  • data analysis
  • LP Perspectives Study
  • capital movement
  • investor sentiment

Keywords

  • LPs
  • private equity
  • investment priorities
  • data analysis
  • market trends
  • capital movement
  • PEI Perspectives Study

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Private Equity International, PEI Group, Secondaries Investor

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