The annual private markets research conference is a forum to explore the latest research advances in private markets by combining academic and practitioner perspectives. For the eighth edition, the conference is taking place on 26-27 June, 2025 in Lausanne.

Topics covered include:

• Risk and performance measurement of private market funds
• The economics of private impact investment funds
• Private fund manager incentives
• Institutional investor asset allocation
• Entrepreneurial finance
• Alternative private investing structures
• Private equity, private debt and private real asset investing
• VC contracting
• ESG, TBL, and impact exposures of private market funds
• Private market exits and alternative routes to liquidity

On the first day of the conference, Frederic Blanc-Brude, Director of Scientific Infra & Private Assets, will be participating in a panel discussion on the “Democratisation of Private Market Instruments” and in a practitioners session on “Benchmarking Private Market Performance”. He will also be contributing to the panel discussion on “Private Equity’s Role in Strategic Asset Allocation under Shifting Monetary Dynamics”.

Register here.