What's New?
A dedicated website for the Private Markets Profile, the quarterly publication for institutional asset allocators, has been launched.
The website, www.privatemarketsprofile.com, collects all the features and interviews from issues of the Private Markets Profile, offers details of the annual conference PMP: Inside the Deal and quarterly networking meeting PMP Live, and much more besides.
What started out life as a Room151 supplement for LGPS practitioners, has taken on a wider audience of institutional investors and the publication will speak to that audience, as well as its LGPS readers, from its new home.
This coincides with the launch of the latest edition of the Private Markets Profile (Q4 2024), which can be read
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