NAV loans

GP Financing for Lower Middle Market Managers: What It Is, What Secures It, and What a Practitioner Should Ask

GP financing is borrowing at the manager level rather than the fund level. Different than NAV financing, managers use GP financing for the commitment itself, as well as other reasons.

Sponsored by Nodem Capital

Private Equity

Not All DPI is Created Equal: LPs Scrutinize the Source of PE Distributions

With fundraising increasingly tied to cash returned to investors, private equity firms are finding new ways to generate liquidity. But LPs are looking beyond the headline DPI numbers to see how that cash was produced — and how much risk remains.

September 23, 2026

Lenders & Private Credit

When Private Credit Replaces the Exit

Sponsors have found new ways to return cash without exiting assets and private credit is financing many of them.

August 12, 2026

Lenders & Private Credit

NAV Financing Shedding Its Last-Resort Label

LPs still have concerns about transparency and leverage, but the industry's appetite for fund-level financing continues to grow.

June 23, 2026

Private Equity

Hunter Point Capital Closes $4.3B Across Inaugural GP Financing Strategies

The two strategies exceeded their targets and bring the firm’s total AUM and commitments to approximately $10 billion.

June 8, 2026

Private Equity

Secondaries Edge: Secondaries Surge, NAV Lending Expands and Deals Breakdown

Private equity’s secondaries market is bigger and more liquid than ever, but as record volumes collide with rising NAV leverage, getting deals done now hinges less on price and more on approvals, compliance and execution.

January 21, 2026