Hamilton Lane, a global private markets investment management firm, published its 2025 Market Overview. This year's report offers a nuanced picture of the global private markets landscape, backed by historical data around outperformance, downside risk and diversification benefits, as well as a burgeoning evergreen landscape, demonstrating its compelling case for a growing number of investors.
The firm's annual market overview is a comprehensive, data-driven review and analysis of private markets investment activity over the prior year, as well as predictions for the year ahead. The detailed report leverages Hamilton Lane's database that encompasses data on more than 58,000 funds across 57 vintage years. Among the report's findings, credit, infrastructure and secondaries are set up for success. Investors should have exposure to venture and growth. AI applications will likely sweep the business landscape and many of those companies will be incubated and developed in