Dated and permanent — an edition is never rewritten after publication; corrections land in its changelog.
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 is a dated, permanent
edition — it is not updated after publication; corrections land in the changelog.
Frazier Life Sciences has raised more than $1.1bn from new and existing investors for its public biotechnology strategy. That takes total commitments to approximately $2.8bn.
BlueOrchard has raised $250m at the first close of a climate-focused emerging markets private debt fund. Backers include Aviva Investors and Daido Life Insurance Company.
Intrepid Growth Partners, led by the former CEO of CPPIB, has closed its inaugural fund at $525m to pursue growth-stage AI companies. The specialist investor says it aims to reshape established industries through its strategy.
CVC has set an initial €26bn target for its tenth Europe/Americas flagship fund. Formal fundraising begins in January, putting the firm on course for another of the world's largest private equity raises.
Vista Equity Partners is weighing strategic options for Finastra, including a sale that could value the financial software provider at several billion dollars. The.
Form ADV Schedule D disclosures through 2024-12-26 show EQUITYBEE SECURITIES, LLC across 697 of 697 historic funds disclosing a marketer for EQUITYBEE ADVISORS, LLC, the filing adviser legal entity (not an ultimate parent group). This is a historic disclosure, not a current award, win or change.
New entries in the public registers we track, by domicile: Luxembourg 31, Ireland 21. Counts are of new register entries (not a de-duplicated fund universe). Observed between register readings of 2026-09-06 and 2026-09-13.
Live EDGAR full-text window for Form D filings declaring industry 'Pooled Investment Fund'. The 2026 Q2 quarterly dataset covers 10,912 pooled filings.
6,653 plan-fund rows across 31 pension plans' own disclosures (plan as-of dates 2024-09-30 to 2026-05-31). Median net IRR across 4,235 disclosed positions of vintage 2021 or earlier: 11.9%. Cross-plan holdings are the signal — see the PE performance pages.
Median assumed return across the tracked plans: 7.0%. The highest is Omaha (NE) Police and Fire (Nebraska) at 7.75% and a funded ratio of 58%. The assumption discounts the liabilities — the higher it is, the healthier a plan looks on paper. Figures as published in each plan's own reporting; fiscal years differ by plan.
Changelog
3 changes to the law and guidance · latest 2026-10-03
2026-09-15 — published.
2026-10-03 — corrected: Frazier Life Sciences — removed "from roughly $1.7bn", our own calculation; the source gives the new total ($2.8bn) only.
2026-10-03 — corrected: Volition Capital Fund VI — "the $675m Fund V" was our own calculation → "41% larger than Fund V", as the source reports.