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The week's fund-industry signal, curated: fund launches and closes, manager and servicer moves, and figures from our own registers. Every trade-press item links its source and ends with why it matters to someone who runs or services funds. Trade-press items are published only after every cited source was machine-verified; register figures are computed from the published data files. This edition has a permanent address; a factual error is corrected in place.
AltAssets · 2026-09-18
Global
Portage has closed its fourth flagship venture fund on about $600m, slightly below the $655m raised by its predecessor four years ago. It still grew its wider investment platform to $7bn in assets under management. The smaller fund is a minor setback for the fintech specialist.
AltAssets · 2026-09-18
North America
Siguler Guff has raised more than $3bn for its US small-buyout strategy. That is the largest fundraising in the strategy's history, with nearly $700m of it in separately managed accounts.
SEC Form D · 2026-09-17
Global
Palmer Square Capital Management has raised $240.8m for Palmer Square Excelsior Investments Fund, a hedge fund it manages and advises. The offering is open with no stated maximum, so the figure is the amount sold since the first sale in 2023, not a final close.
AltAssets · 2026-09-17
Global
Bain Capital Ventures has closed its eleventh core venture fund at $1.6bn.
AltAssets · 2026-09-17
Global
Morgan Stanley Investment Management has closed its first dedicated growth equity fund at $1.3bn, oversubscribed, with the firm committing almost 25% of the capital.
Private Equity Wire · 2026-09-18
Europe
KKR has overtaken Partners Group to become Europe's largest manager of open-ended private-market funds by assets.
Alternative Credit Investor · 2026-09-17
Global
Amundi has acquired a 9.9% stake in alternative asset manager ICG for €620m. The investment follows an equity partnership the two firms announced last November.
Public Plans Database · plan FYs 2022–2025
North America
Comparing each plan's own assumed return with its own reported 10-year investment return, 51 plans fall short of their assumption; the widest gap is New Orleans (LA) Firefighters (Louisiana): 7.50% assumed vs -0.92% earned. Ten-year windows smooth but don't settle the argument — both figures are the plans' own.