StepStone Managing Director Alesia Dawidowicz, CFA will be speaking on a panel at the upcoming Institutional Investor DACH Summit on June 18 in Zurich. The panel, “Cockroaches in the Coalmine?”, will examine how to read stress in private credit markets, looking at when defaults are noise, when they signal risk, and how manager approach is becoming a key differentiator. If you'll be attending, be sure to listen in and connect with Alesia while you're there.

Where is buyout alpha coming from? StepStone Partner Aditya Fontana-Raina will join the panel "Alpha, Engineering, and Alignment: Buyouts After the Peak" at the Boston Private Markets Meeting on June 12 to examine what’s driving buyout returns today. Be sure connect with Aditya if you'll be attending.

StepStone’s 2026 summer internship class has arrived! This week marked the start of our U.S. summer internship program, with teams welcoming our newest group of interns. Selected from more than 22K applications, this year’s class includes 78 interns from 49 universities, joining teams across 4 asset classes and 8 departments in 7 offices. Over the coming weeks, they'll gain real-world experience in private markets and have the chance to make meaningful contributions to the work we do. Welcome to StepStone, we’re excited to have you here!

Germany is Europe’s largest economy, but its private equity market has consistently rewarded precision over broad-based exposure. Returns have concentrated in specific pockets: software, IT services, insurance brokerage, and education, backed by locally-rooted, sector-specialist managers with deep Mittelstand relationships. In our latest paper, we look beneath the headline numbers to show where German private equity has delivered, and why selectivity is critical. Read the paper to learn more: bit.ly/4dPjtP0

StepStone Managing Director Colin Donnelly will be speaking on the panel “The rise of industrial” at the Real Estate Midwest Forum in Chicago on June 4. Industrial real estate continues to gain momentum as logistics, manufacturing, and data centers expand. This panel will explore how these asset classes are shaping portfolios today, where investors are seeing opportunity, and the role of technology and infrastructure in supporting continued growth.

Join Margaret McKnight, Partner and Head of Portfolio Solutions, and members of SRE's research team for StepStone's House Views Webinar on Tuesday, June 2 at 11am ET, where they will discuss insights from StepStone Real Estate’s Spring 2026 House Views report. The conversation will focus on current market conditions, the role of income in real estate returns, and how selectivity across assets, strategies, and managers is influencing today’s real estate landscape. Register here: bit.ly/4a5xoiz Read the full report here: bit.ly/3S3RF1O

StepStone Group reported results for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2026. Visit our shareholder page to listen to the replay ▶️ bit.ly/3AWPanE

We are heading to SuperReturn International in Berlin, 8–12 June 2026. On Monday, 8 June 2026, Carlos Sahuquillo will present “Reviving the giant: Germany's Private Equity renaissance” and moderate the panel “Overcoming fundraising difficulties in a changing landscape.” Also on Monday, 8 June 2026, Hans‑Jörg Baumann will moderate the panel “Private credit: a new continuum — meeting the challenges of an altered investing era” and interview Jon Pruzan, Co‑President of Pretium, during the session “The expanding role of Private Credit in Residential Markets.” On Tuesday, 9 June 2026, Philippe Ferneini will join the panel “GP-led transactions: Balancing liquidity, transparency, and long-term value creation,” a discussion focused on how GPs are approaching liquidity needs while staying aligned with LP expectations over the long term. On Friday, 12 June 2026, Bernard De Backer will speak on “What are the key drivers for private equity co-investments in 2026?” looking at what’s shaping demand and decision-making in today’s co-investment market. Michael McGuire, CFA, Anthony Giambrone, and several other members of the StepStone team will also be in attendance, be sure to connect with them if you’ll be at the conference.

Our latest paper explores the evolution of specialty credit within private markets, focusing on what differentiates the strategy from traditional direct lending. It further examines asset‑based cash flows and collateral structures, portfolio construction considerations, and the potential diversification and return benefits for investors. As the market continues to expand, we believe specialty credit is becoming an increasingly important component of modern private credit portfolios. Read more: bit.ly/49wREcL

In our latest episode of RPM, Michael Venne sits down with Akhilan Nesaratnam to explore why UK private equity has quietly outperformed, despite the noisy macro backdrop. They unpack three forces shaping the market’s edge—scarcity, specialism, and succession—and what could change as the Mansion House Accord signals a new wave of domestic capital and competition. Listen to the full episode here: bit.ly/430ZXdb

As GP-led volume continues to rise, selectivity is becoming the defining factor for investors. The market remains undercapitalized, but access to high-quality deals increasingly depends on speed, structuring expertise, and strong GP relationships. It’s becoming clear that not all private equity GP-leds are created equal. In our latest video, Philippe Ferneini dives into what separates quality opportunities from the rest. Read the full paper to learn more: bit.ly/4cOlhXX

As GP-led volume continues to rise, selectivity is becoming the defining factor for investors. The market remains undercapitalized, but access to high-quality deals increasingly depends on speed, structuring expertise, and strong GP relationships. It’s becoming clear that not all private equity GP-leds are created equal. In our latest video, Philippe Ferneini dives into what separates quality opportunities from the rest. Read the full paper to learn more: bit.ly/4cOlhXX

Join Andrew Callahan, Partner at StepStone Group, at the Canada Private Markets Meeting on May 21 in Toronto, where he’ll join the panel, "Venture capital beyond the hype cycle: where durable capital is still being created." The panel will focus on capital efficiency, portfolio construction, and how investors are navigating longer liquidity timelines.

StepStone has joined @LSEplc's Digital Markets Infrastructure (DMI) platform, helping advance access to private markets through established market infrastructure. As one of the first private markets managers on the platform, this marks another step towards greater efficiency, transparency and integration. It also builds on the broader relationship with LSEG, following the launch of the FTSE StepStone Global Private Market Indices in 2025. Read the full story: bit.ly/4tZ2FvK

StepStone Partner John Bohill recently sat down with Private Debt Investor for an Expert Q & A, discussing how innovative structuring is helping to drive the next phase of growth in credit secondaries. The conversation explores why credit is particularly well suited to secondaries, how GP‑led transactions and structured solutions are evolving, and what concentrated tails and portfolio maturity mean as the market scales. They also discuss how LPs are thinking about risk, liquidity, and portfolio construction as credit secondaries become a more structural part of private markets. Read the full piece here: bit.ly/42iqJNU

StepStone Group has entered into a partnership with @PitchBook to expand access to deal performance and operating benchmarks for private market participants. 📊 As part of this partnership, StepStone's deal-level benchmarks will be available through both the PitchBook and the SPI by StepStone platforms—enabling investors to derive deeper insights and understand the drivers of deal performance across private equity, venture capital, growth equity, and infrastructure. The collaboration provides investors with a high-quality, trusted dataset of aggregated, anonymized benchmarks to support greater transparency and more sophisticated analytics across the private markets. Learn more about the partnership: bit.ly/4tbIOrP

Private markets access is evolving. In a recent PEI keynote interview, Brett Schlemovitz and Miguel Sosa discuss how evergreen funds, digital platforms, and policy shifts are helping broaden access for individual investors and what that could mean for the future of fundraising. Read the full interview: bit.ly/4tf31wW

Members of our Asia Private Wealth team attended the Euromoney Private Banking Awards 2026 ceremony in Singapore last week to accept the award recognizing StepStone Group as Asia’s Best Investment Manager – Private Credit. Congratulations again to Andy Tsai, JianHao Low, Jake Lee, Evan Sutjahjo for this recognition and continued work supporting partners and clients across the region.

Our latest paper explores how AI is reshaping venture capital and what it means for investors: - Faster company formation and time to scale - Greater concentration in a few category leaders - Widening dispersion across returns - Faster market sorting between winners and laggards The takeaway: capturing power-law outcomes will depend on consistent venture exposure and access to top managers. Read the full paper – bit.ly/4uneR9w