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• 2020 Views from the LPAC

  Over our 25+ years of investing across private markets, Barings has held hundreds of Limited Partner Advisory Committee (LPAC) seats. From this vantage point, we offer the following insights on the issues and actions currently under debate between LPs and their GPs.

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• Six Considerations for LPs Navigating Private Market Uncertainty

  When it comes to finding clarity in an environment mired in uncertainty, an open dialogue between LPs and GPs is as critical as ever.

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• Private Equity: Where LPs Need to Do Their Homework Now

  From fund-life extensions to ESG and diversity efforts, limited partners (LPs) have no shortage of factors to consider when evaluating PE investments. Barings’ Elizabeth Weindruch provides first-hand insight into the latest challenges facing PE investors today.

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• Views from the LPAC

  Barings has held hundreds of LPAC seats over the past 25+ years investing across private markets—mitigating conflicts of interests, and suggesting best practices to GPs and LPs. As the landscape has evolved, we’ve seen several trends arise—and offer the following insights.

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• Highlights from the Barings 360 Private Markets Conference

  Watch Barings CEO, Tom Finke, and other senior leaders discuss their key takeaways from the firm's signature private assets event.

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• Barings 360: For LPs, By LPs

  Attendees of the Barings 360 Private Markets Conference discuss the value of exchanging ideas and perspectives with their peers.

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• Private Equity: Emerging, Women & Diverse Managers

  Amid increased competition and rich valuations, PE returns have continued to trend downward. In this interview, Barings’ Mina Nazemi discusses how allocations to emerging, women and diverse managers can potentially help combat this trend.

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• Don't Judge A Private Equity Fund By Its Number

  At Barings, contrary to popular belief, we believe that identifying high-quality opportunities in emerging and diverse private equity managers can deliver attractive risk-adjusted returns to investors.

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• Opportunities Across Energy and Power Generation

  As long-term structural demand trends converge with short-term technological innovations, opportunities are emerging to invest private capital in real assets.

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• Second Chances

  The market for infrastructure investments has become increasingly competitive. In this piece from i3, Barings’ Naoki Ohta discusses the infrastructure secondaries market and where Barings is seeing opportunities today.

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• A Compelling Opportunity in Real Assets

  Compelling structural and cyclical dynamics are creating attractive opportunities in real assets, particularly across the energy value chain and power generation sector.

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• Private Market Opportunities

  At Barings, we serve as a strategic partner to our clients, offering customized solutions and access to niche opportunities in areas like real assets, emerging managers and the lower middle market.

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• Investing Through an ESG Lens

  Mina Nazemi, Managing Director of Alternative Investments, weighs in on how investing through an ESG lens can provide a more complete view of risks and opportunities.

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• Constructing & Managing a Private Equity Allocation

  In this Q&A, Rick Spencer discusses the potential benefits of an alternative investment strategy focused on funds and co-investments, and touches on some of the less understood challenges facing investors.

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