Hamilton Lane
Hamilton Lane
Seven Tower Bridge
110 Washington Street, Suite 1300
Conshohocken, PA 19428
USA
+1 610 934 2222
John Brecker
Managing Director, Client Solutions
484 531 6659
jbrecker@hamiltonlane.com
About Hamilton Lane
Hamilton Lane (Nasdaq: HLNE) is one of the largest private markets investment firms globally, providing innovative solutions to institutional and private wealth investors around the world. Dedicated exclusively to private markets investing for more than 30 years, the firm currently employs approximately 770 professionals operating in offices throughout North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. Hamilton Lane has $1.0 trillion in assets under management and supervision, composed of $145.4 billion in discretionary assets and $859.8 billion in non-discretionary assets, as of September 30, 2025. Hamilton Lane specializes in building flexible investment programs that provide clients access to the full spectrum of private markets strategies, sectors and geographies. For more information, please visit www.hamiltonlane.com.
Funding the Future of Endowments and Foundations
Thriving Through Disruption: Trump 2.0, Tech and the Transition
Private market-based solutions incorporating technology, innovation and information access are the true drivers of value creation, change and impactful solutions.
PODCASTPrivate Market's Death: Myths & Realities
Hamilton Lane’s Mario Giannini joins the InsuranceAUM.com Podcast to discuss the myths and realities of private markets, including private equity performance, the rise of private credit, and AI’s growing role in investment strategy.
Smart Capital, Strategic Returns: The Case for Middle Market Private Equity
A high-volume middle market strategy reduces concentration risk and enables agile, opportunistic investing.
Venture Secondaries and AI: $80B+ in Liquidity Potential
AI innovation and sluggish exits have sparked robust VC secondaries opportunities.
From the Desk of Mario Giannini | Market Update
Mario’s latest update provides in-depth analysis of the current market environment in an effort to frame facts and discussion around economies and markets, including implications for the private markets.
The Power Paradox: Balancing Supply and Demand
Attractive investment opportunities will be found alongside operators that can quickly provide customers with reliable sources of power.
Private Real Estate: The Ascent of Alternatives
Investor appetite towards alternative sectors should continue to accelerate given the diversification benefits they provide to core real estate portfolios.
2025 Infrastructure Fundraising: The Rise of "Infrastructure 3.0"
We believe the rise of "Infrastructure 3.0," where we expect to see an increasing number of emerging managers, is underway and will broaden the infrastructure investment ecosystem.
Senior Credit Opportunities Fund Overview
Hamilton Lane Senior Credit Opportunities Fund (SCOPE) is an all-weather senior private credit evergreen vehicle intended for investors seeking potential safety and yield.
The Truth About Secondaries: Separating Myth from Market Opportunity
This article unpacks what's myth, what's fact, and where the opportunities live.
Latin America's Untapped Infrastructure Potential
In this Q&A, Hamilton Lane's global leaders discuss the future of private infrastructure with distinguished private markets panellists, identifying compelling investment opportunities and emerging trends across the Americas.
2025 Infrastructure Market Overview
Hamilton Lane's Infrastructure Market Overview analyzes the evolving landscape across the private infrastructure market. Here's what's happening in 2025.
Infrastructure Secondaries: Bridging the Gap
Infrastructure secondaries can bridge a gap in private markets portfolios, which appeals to both GPs and LPs alike.
2025 Real Estate Market Overview Report
In our 2025 Real Estate Market Overview, we take a comprehensive look at the trends, challenges and opportunities shaping the asset class today.
Housing Demand Boom, High-Cost Debt Gloom: The Dichotomy of Multifamily
Though fundamentals remain sound, capital dislocation exists: The multifamily sector presents a unique opportunity to play across the capital stack and acquire quality assets at attractive pricing.
How to Construct Portfolios with an ELTIF
Discover how the newly revised ELTIF regulation is democratizing private market investing in the European Union, making it accessible to a wide range of investors.
The Intersection of Private Markets Valuations and Technology
In the private markets, there are many ways to value companies against public and private proxies. But, until recently, there wasn't a standardized, scalable way to value companies across the growing number of strategies and sub-strategies that make up the broader private markets universe. Now, that's changing.
From the Desk of Mario Giannini | Market Update
Mario’s latest update provides in-depth analysis of the current market environment in an effort to frame facts and discussion around economies and markets, including implications for the private markets.
PODCASTGood PIK vs. Bad PIK
One of the hottest topics in private credit right now is paid-in-kind interest, also known as PIK. Managing Director of Direct Credit Investments Emily Nomeir discusses the benefits and potential challenges of PIK for private markets investors.
What's Driving Private Infrastructure Growth?
In our Annual Global Private Wealth Survey, we asked advisors which sectors of the private markets they’re planning to increase allocations to in 2025. The sector that came out on top: private infrastructure.
Has the Golden Age of Private Credit Lost its Shine?
Amidst an evolving market backdrop, some investors are debating whether the golden age of private credit may be changing. We believe it will continue, and the data suggests that private credit has reason to continue delivering its consistency of performance and attractive yields in a higher-for-longer rate environment.
SS&C's Day of Thought Leadership: Trends and Challenges in Reinsurance Investment - Insurer Insights for 2025
InsuranceAUM.com recently joined the Day of Thought Leadership event focusing on reinsurance investment trends and challenges.
What Have You Done for Me Lately?
Investors are experiencing a unique inflection point within their investment portfolios where public market indices have outperformed over the past 18 months. Will this continue? The data suggests this is an unsustainable trend over the medium-to-long term and that the return outlook looks most promising for private equities over the next several years.
Key Infrastructure Themes for the Year Ahead
2024 has seen a flurry of infrastructure investment activity. From allocating capital to megatrends like digitization to more essential infrastructure projects that focus on water and waste management, investors have shown an increased appetite for the asset class. We expect this trend to continue and would point to a few key themes which we believe make private infrastructure well-positioned for long-term success.
Top Secondary Investment Trends with Keith Brittain
The secondary market has grown significantly over the last decade in terms of its size and presence in the private markets. As secondary market volume continues to increase, new trends across portfolio management and the secondary market are taking shape.
Portfolio Construction Volume III: Risky Business
In this paper, we examine three methodologies that asset managers typically use to measure appraisal valuations: observed volatility, statistical desmoothing and public market proxies.
PODCASTEpisode 256: Best Practices for Portfolio Construction in Private Assets
Key practices for insurance investors constructing private asset portfolios. Explore strategies, risks, and data-driven insights to optimize allocation with Hamilton Lane experts.
Customizing Private Markets Portfolios for Success in Asia's Dynamic Market
In the rapidly-evolving investment landscape across Asia today, private markets investors face an increasingly complex set of choices when constructing their portfolios.
Digitize Your Diligence Process: How private market investors can leverage technology to find their next investment opportunity
Investment selection within the private sector is crucial to performance and selecting the top performing managers for your organization’s portfolio requires significant data and resources. Limited partners with increasingly aggressive mandates to grow allocations can find it challenging to navigate the long and multi-layered diligence process.
Mid-Year Private Credit Viewpoints
The following mid-year update assesses the current state of the market and builds on our earlier private credit viewpoints for 2024.
Top Technology Trends in the Private Markets Part II
At the end of 2023, we spoke with Head of Technology Solutions Griff Norville to discuss notable technology trends spanning the private markets. We recently caught up with Griff to get a mid-year update on what’s being dubbed the new age of digital investing (or at least that’s what we’re calling it).
Are Positive Environmental and Social Outcomes in Investing Reserved for Philanthropists?
Thematic, sustainable and impact investing does not automatically lead to attractive performance, but thoughtful portfolio construction may help investors realize positive, long-term returns.
Road To Nowhere | Mid-Year Update: Investors Still Finding Their Footing on the Path Forward
Recently, private equity has exhibited a faster snap-back in performance compared to the more ‘fundamental’ global downturns of the dot-com era and the GFC.
Private Markets Made Human | View From the Top
Newly appointed Co-CEOs Juan Delgado and Erik Hirsch give PMMH an inside look into their new roles and how they are thinking about the strategic direction of the firm in a rapidly evolving industry.
Portfolio Construction Vol. II: Assembling the Building Blocks
What are the building blocks to a strategically constructed private markets portfolio? Return, risk, liquidity and the data are all needed to make informed decisions.
Private Markets Made Human | To Invest or Not to Invest
How do you decide whether to invest or not to invest in the current market environment? Hear from Executive Co-Chairman Mario Giannini as he dives into the hot topics coming out of this year’s Market Overview.
Hamilton Lane 2024 Market Overview
Informed by our expansive database, research capabilities and industry expertise, Hamilton Lane’s annual Market Overview offers a comprehensive and unique perspective on the private markets investment landscape to help navigate what lies ahead for the industry.
Portfolio Construction Vol. I: A Foundation for Success
With the nearly $3.8 trillion of capital flowing into the alternative asset class, the case for including private assets in an investment portfolio is compelling, especially when executed strategically.
The Middle Seat: A Compelling Time for Middle-Market Buyouts
In most contexts, the middle seat is perhaps one of the most loathed places to be. However, if you are facing an investable landscape filled with growing uncertainty – and are (finally) convinced that trying to time the market is a bad idea – then a heightened focus on the middle-market buyout segment may be warranted. Vice Chairman Drew Schardt explains why middle-market buyouts have the potential to enhance returns in a diversified portfolio.
PODCASTEpisode 172: Best Opportunities in Private Markets with Drew Schardt of Hamilton Lane
Drew Schardt is the Vice Chairman, Head of Investment Strategy, and Head of Direct Private Equity at Hamilton Lane.
PODCASTPrivate Markets Made Human | Breaking Ground on Private Real Estate Investing
What is the value of investing in private real estate? And how does it compare to publicly listed REITs? Learn about private real estate investing and how it has the potential to produce attractive returns with low volatility and act as an inflation hedge to diversify your portfolio.
Breaking Barriers: The Rise and Staying Power of Emerging Managers
Head of Emerging Managers & Diverse-led Investments Katie Moore discusses the evolution of investing in emerging managers, their importance to the private markets ecosystem and how it is built into our firm's DNA.
PODCASTPrivate Markets Made Human | Leveraging Data & Tech to Unlock the Private Markets
Griff Norville discusses how his team is digitizing a cutting-edge private market investment toolkit – from the due diligence process, to reporting, and beyond.
PODCASTPrivate Markets Made Human | Connecting Emerging Managers to Core Portfolios
Head of Emerging & Diverse Manager Platform Katie Moore discusses the importance of investing in emerging managers, and how it is built into our firm's DNA.
PODCASTPrivate Markets Made Human Podcast: Episode 7 | Nayef Perry and Emily Nomeir - The Golden Age of Credit
Private credit has outperformed public credit for 21 of the last 22 years. Leaders on our Direct Credit team discuss the trends they are seeing, and why they believe this asset class is having it's 'moment.'
Private Markets Made Human Episode 6 | Bryan Jenkins - Pulling Back the Market Overview Curtain
Co-Head of Portfolio Management Group Bryan Jenkins pulls back the curtain on the process of building the annual Market Overview.
Hamilton Lane Strategies
Private Credit's Seniority in a Typical Capital Structure
The typical capital structure of a company is comprised of both debt and equity. Co-Head of Direct Credit, Nayef Perry, explores the benefits of senior debt in this example.
What Does Secondary Market Growth Mean for You?
Few corners of private markets can match the recent growth of secondaries. Once the province of distressed sellers and “zombie funds," secondaries now involve the bluest of blue-chip LPs and GPs (see here and here). This evolution has helped annual volume rocket from $20 billion in 2008 to well more than $100 billion in 2021 and 2022.