Higher for longer: Private markets may be due a reckoning after a decade of stellar growth

Steeper debt costs could weigh on returns

Valeria Martinez
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A higher for longer interest rates environment is poised to weigh heavily on the growth and performance of the private markets industry after a decade of favourable market conditions, but this backdrop may also create pockets of opportunity.

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