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AI is touching every aspect of the alternative assets industry - from internal applications to portco value creation and investment opportunities. But there are risks ahead, with overhype and regulatory uncertainty partly clouding the path forward.

With MIT research revealing that just 5% of artificial intelligence initiatives succeed, how can private markets firms ensure their AI efforts will lead to genuine value creation?

While LPs are 'not leaving' impact, investors have limited capital to deploy into the market, which is heavily dominated by emerging managers, a secondaries buyer said at PEI Group’s New Private Markets Investor Summit.

Peter Cashion, managing director for sustainable investments at the Californian state employees' pension plan, is encouraging the real assets and private debt teams to engage with more emerging and diverse fund managers.

Short-term and increasingly passive public markets aren’t always the right fit for major transformations, particularly those being driven by trends such as decarbonisation and AI.

Do customisable models incorporating both public and private markets exposure represent the next step in the democratisation of alternatives?

Thanks to the evolution of a robust private market ecosystem that includes private credit, secondaries and unprecedented amounts of capital, companies are growing bigger and staying private for longer than ever before. Nevertheless, the dream to go public is still very much alive.

Companies are staying private for longer, but our economies need fully functioning and vibrant public markets as well.

In this episode of The New Private Markets Podcast, Jennifer Kenning of Align Impact joins Toby Mitchenall and Michael Bowen to pick over the talking points of the Investor Summit: North America.

The arrival of retail capital into the secondaries market helped one investor as it off-loaded some tail-end buyout fund exposure.