Category Archives: WEEKLY SPIN

Yield Over Yachts

Single family offices are laying down the foundations to increase their exposure to private credit while also add new exposure to infrastructure, as they look to diversify beyond private equity. According to the BlackRock Global Family Office Report 2025, 32% of family offices surveyed are favouring private credit, while 32% said they plan on either increasing or adding new exposure to infrastructure as sectoral trends, such as building data centres in response to the AI boom, continue to gain traction.

Ex-seeding Expectations

$2B funding, soaring to a $10B valuation before launching a product…

Toodle PIP

Steered with grace. And expertise. Pantheon International (PIP) partner Helen Steers MBE, is set to retire at the end of 2025. The news was announced by the board of PIP, which Helen co-leads alongside Charlotte Morris. Charlotte is a partner in Pantheon’s global secondaries team and a member of the firm’s secondaries investment committee.

Oversubscribed. Overachieving. Unstoppable.

Cue round of applause. Software investor extraordinaire, Thoma Bravo, has raised in excess of $34.4 billion for its buyout funds, with Thoma Bravo Fund XVI closing with $24.3 billion; an extraordinary achievement for the US private equity group, whose portfolio of 75 companies generate approximately $30 billion of annual revenue and employ over 93,000 staff globally.

Swift Business, Smart Exit

Well that was swift. Five years after LA-based Shamrock Capital acquired Taylor Swift’s ownership rights to her first six albums for $360 million, the pop megastar has been able to re-acquire them. “I will forever be grateful to everyone at Shamrock Capital for being the first people to offer this to me,” she wrote on her website.