Q3 2026 Index Reports
The Q3 2026 Index Report offers a detailed overview of the trends shaping global private equity markets, providing analysis of valuation movements, market dynamics, and the factors influencing performance across the private markets landscape.
Designed as a benchmark for investors, fund managers, advisors and consultants the report deliver data-driven insight into the evolving state of private markets.
Key Highlights from Q3 2026
- Private equity outperformed infrastructure equity this quarter, reversing a sizeable gap from the previous quarter, when infrastructure held a clear lead.
- Rising interest rates were responsible for the vast majority of this quarter’s decline in infrastructure valuations, eclipsing every other factor combined.
- The same two sectors emerged as the leading drag on both infrastructure equity and debt returns this quarter.
- Within renewable infrastructure, one generation technology advanced while another retreated by a near-identical margin, leaving the broader index close to flat.
- Smaller infrastructure companies underperformed their larger counterparts by a wide margin this quarter, reversing an edge they have held consistently over five- and ten-year horizons.
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