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DPI Is the New IRR: Why Investors Now Demand Cash, Not Paper

IRR can be engineered and TVPI can be marked — but DPI counts only realised cash. Why it’s overtaking IRR as the metric investors trust, and why strong DPI is won at origination.

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Following the Pension Money: Will Britain’s Savers Ever Fund Your Business?

Westminster has spent two years trying to move British pension savings into British private markets. The legislation is now in place, the pledges are signed and the Chancellor is taking credit for the first £10 billion. But capital follows the path of least resistance, not the path set out in a speech. For the owner or finance director of a UK mid-market business, the question isn’t whether the pension money is coming. It’s whether any of it will ever reach a company your size, and on what terms.

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Your Margin Didn’t Move. Your Loan Did.

In two quarters, private credit lenders have halved the structural flexibility they spent three years handing out. Headline pricing in the European mid-market has barely twitched. Put those two facts side by side and you have the most honest signal the asset class has given anyone about where it thinks we are in the cycle. Most borrowers are still negotiating the wrong number.

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