IPEM GLOBAL 2026

Event Agenda

Sed cautela nimia in peiores haeserat plagas, ut narrabimus postea, aemulis consarcinantibus insidias graves apud Constantium, cetera medium principem sed siquid auribus eius huius modi quivis infudisset ignotus, acerbum et inplacabilem et in hoc causarum titulo dissimilem sui
September 8, 2026
08:50
08:50 - 09:00
LP Congress | Welcome to the LP Congress
Presented by Antoine Colson
AntoineCOLSON (IPEM)
09:00
09:00 - 17:00
LP Congress Plenary Room (LP Only Session)
SarahStartup (IPEM)
09:00 - 09:10
LP Congress | Opening remarks by French Minister, Roland Lescure
09:10 - 09:30
LP Congress | Rethinking illiquidity, and active portfolio management
Illiquidity, up until now a fundament feature of private markets, is being reframed. The maturing secondary market is providing a new tool for active management; allowing LPs to sell on a programmatic cadence and recycle capital into better vintages. Does this mean private allocations are moving towards similar treatment as liquid portfolios? What are the consequences for private markets in an allocation? Are there risks to long-term patient capital becoming more impatient?
AntoineCOLSON (IPEM)GabrielMollerberg (GOLDMAN SACHS ALTERNATIVES)LoySong (GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES PENSION SERVICE)
09:30 - 09:50
LP Congress | Views on asset allocation
As companies stay private for longer and liquidity solutions evolve, how do investment offices adopt the right approach to asset allocation? What role do private markets now play? Do ongoing rolling shocks demand a more agile approach?
AndreaAuerbach (CAMBRIDGE ASSOCIATES)
09:50 - 10:20
LP Congress | What does a new era of partnership look like?
The case for being bolder and more creative with GP relationships. LPs trend towards fewer, deeper partnerships with their managers. What are they looking for? Why did they take the decision? How do you make it a success?
JoanaRocha Scaff (NEUBERGER BERMAN)BenoitValentin (TEMASEK)JenniferCHOI (ILPA)
10:20
10:20 - 10:40
LP Congress | A safe pair of hands? Understanding the risk-return relationship in PE
Oliver presents new research on how risk is related to performance in PE and how LPs can diagnose the specific risk mitigation skills of a GP
OliverGOTTSCHALG (GOTTSCHALG)
10:40 - 11:20
LP Congress | How to manage the tension between primaries and secondaries
Now that the secondary market is so large (and continuing to mature), we explore what tension it may create with making primary commitments. After all, the secondary market gives the optionality for vintage diversification, faster deployment and visible NAV. How do you balance both primary with secondary commitments within the same programme? Have secondaries have become so attractive on a risk-adjusted basis that they're cannibalising primary appetite?
KaseyJi (OMERS)JoshSCOTT (PENSIONS & INVESTMENTS)Maria LuciaAguilar-Wittmann (ALLIANZ GLOBAL INVESTORS)
11:20
11:20 - 11:30
LP Congress | Morning Break
11:30 - 15:10
LP Congress Breakout Room 1 (LP Only Session)
JohnHolloway (CAPNOR)
11:30 - 16:15
LP Congress Breakout Room 2 (LP Only Session)
DENISEKo GENOVESE (IPEM)
11:30 - 11:50
LP Congress | Benchmarking private debt returns
GregoryBROWN (INSTITUTE FOR PRIVATE CAPITAL)
11:30 - 12:05
LP Congress | What to look for in the lower mid-market
Addressing the trend towards outperformance among lower mid-market buyout. Performance dispersion is greater. What does the research say?
MichaelElio (STEPSTONE GROUP)
11:30 - 12:05
LP Congress | Who pays the price for liquidity?
Liquidity has not disappeared; it is being manufactured, and LPs are often left bearing the costs. James O'Donnell (Gibson Dunn) reviews the liquidity toolkit, examines who bears the costs and on what terms, and leaves attendees with the terms to negotiate and seven questions to ask.
JamesO’DONNELL (GIBSON DUNN)
11:50 - 12:20
LP Congress | Private debt - the road to 2030
On private debt, 29% of allocators have a somewhat worse view on opportunities in the asset class compared to last year - the lowest approval rating across all private asset classes. Performance disperson could be to blame, as managers are being tested by their ability to manage credit risk in the face of market uncertainty. Yet the addressable market continues to grow and premium to liquid credit remains a fundamental allocation driver. In this session, we challenge speakers to take a long-term view on where the market is headed and what will determine it’s future.
MatthewCraig-Greene (WAGTAILS PRIVATE MARKETS)DeepahColombel (CRÉDIT AGRICOLE ASSURANCES)JamesReynolds (GOLDMAN SACHS ALTERNATIVES)RolandFohn (STATE STREET INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT)
12:05
12:05 - 12:40
LP Congress | How to diligence a CV
The practical considerations that LPs must take when presented with a decision to roll or cash out.
ValerieHANDAL (HARBOURVEST PARTNERS)
12:05 - 12:40
LP Congress | LP Engagement in Private Markets: From Monitoring to Influence
Long-term asset owners are under mounting pressure to act on their own commitments on climate, governance, social and human rights issues across a 20-30 year horizon. Manager engagement offers a practical means of doing so that goes beyond reporting and monitoring. Yet GPs are left guessing how far they are expected to go and over what timeline. When they ask, many LPs struggle to say what they want and by when. This peer-to-peer roundtable explores how LPs foster effective engagement, including how to set clear expectations, give the necessary direction and share knowledge. The conversation will also focus on the practical - how to get started, what support is required and collective versus solo initiatives. Active participation and questions will be highly encouraged.
ImèneMAHARZI (WEASTEM)EmmanuelPARMENTIER (WEASTEM)
13:00
13:00 - 14:00
LP Congress | Lunch
14:00
14:00 - 14:40
LP Congress | Are the days of information asymmetry numbered?
So much of the data behind private markets is inaccessible to allocators. The true indicators of performance, deal and asset-level data, sit with managers, bankers and deal teams. While LPs get fund-level IRR/MOIC/TVPI (and little else), quarterly NAV is GP-determined with no independent measure. Existing benchmarks measure fund returns rather than company fundamentals. How much appetite is there for LPs to push their GPs for explicit disclosure? Are company fundamentals benchmarks the key to empowering smarter allocator decisions?
AnitaRana (Hamilton Lane)PreethamNanda (JP MORGAN SECURITIES LTD)BoutrosTHIERY (MARSH)ShrirangDeshmukh (JP MORGAN SECURITIES LTD)
14:00 - 14:35
LP Congress | Engaging with GPs about the demands of retail and institutional capital
Framing the conversations that allocators and distributors are having with managers about greater access for individual investors in private markets. How can institutional investors look to protect their privileged access? What do distributors view as an outlook?
GretaTeot (MEDIOBANCA)ValentinPillet (Société Générale Private Banking (SGPB))BrianDIGNEY (STANDARDS BOARD FOR ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENTS)CyrilDEMARIA-BENGOCHEA (BANK JULIUS BAER)
14:00 - 14:40
LP Congress | The Next Phase of Asia's Secondaries Market
Asia secondaries are at an inflection point. With Asia's private equity market now exceeding $3 trillion in AUM and approximately $1.6 trillion of unexited capital overhang, the need for liquidity solutions has never been greater. Asia secondaries are evolving from a niche strategy into a rapidly expanding opportunity set. This session will examine the key forces driving the market forward, discuss the rise of LP-led transactions, GP-led continuation vehicles and growing institutional demand, and explore where the most compelling opportunities are emerging.
MelissaMa (ASIA ALTERNATIVES)
14:35 - 15:10
LP Congress | Where diversification goes next
The mantra of being diversified, but not too diversified, has long been the key to success for many private market allocators. Which is why it was surprising just how concentrated software is within portfolios. Geographical diversification has also become more challenging. Not only is the world bifurcating into geopolitical power blocs, but the debate about sovereignty of capital being deployed within the same borders is becoming more prevalent. What is this doing to challenge the principles of how to build a diversified portfolio? Software may have been the first, but will not be the last to face AI disruption - are there other sectors now to prioritise or rotate out from?
LauraMERLINI (CAIA ASSOCIATION)JessicaSellam (ROTHSCHILD & CO)EllenVan Den Broek (LGPS CENTRAL POOL)NiklasJörger (PG3)AndersStrömblad (AP-FONDEN 2)
14:40 - 15:10
LP Congress | Getting emerging managers past the IC
The proliferation of spin-out teams continues. Great talent, with strong track record, setting out on their own to offer something different. For some, it’s hard to get comfortable with the risk profile, yet the outperformance is hard to ignore. How have LPs convinced the IC?
TaffiAyodele (OFFICE OF THE NYC COMPTROLLER)BettySALANIC (ACCELERATE INVESTORS)DiegoAlaimo (GENERALI ASSET MANAGEMENT)DeeSharma (NORTHERN TRUST ASSET MANAGEMENT)
14:40 - 15:10
LP Congress | Hunting for Alpha: Which Managers Truly Beat the Market?
Private markets lack a reliable way to measure true manager skill versus market performance. Is manager selection more art than science? This session introduces privateAlpha® a new platform by SIPA (part of PEI) - free to access for LPs - that provides hundreds of fund and manager rankings to identify who's outperforming and how often. privateAlpha offers a rigorous methodology for measuring alpha in private equity and infrastructure using asset-level, mark-to-market indices instead of unreliable peer groups of fund-level data. LPs can use this platform to select managers, benchmark fund performance, and monitor their portfolio .
FredericBlanc-Brude (SIPA, PART OF PEI)
15:10
15:10 - 15:25
LP Congress | Afternoon Break
15:25 - 15:55
LP Congress | Agentic allocators - the reality of AI implementation in LP investment offices
Blue-sky session examining how AI is transforming the job of being an allocator.
VictoriaSienczewski (AUUMAI)RyanKULIG (UTAH SCHOOL AND INSTITUTIONAL TRUST FUNDS OFFICE (SITFO))
15:25 - 15:55
LP Congress | From Data to Decisions: Building an Information Edge in Private Markets
How leading investors are turning intelligence into a competitive advantage.
AdamStimpert (NASDAQ EVESTMENT™)SaraTomlinson (NASDAQ EVESTMENT™)
15:55 - 16:25
LP Congress | What’s in the CIO’s inbox?
CIOs are having to navigate investment strategy as the world economy is being rewired by disruption and rewritten by geopolitics. What do they see on the horizon? Strong returns in public markets are mirrored by spluttering private markets. What are the priorities in the year ahead within their own investment programmes? What role does private markets play five years from now?
RogerVINCENT (SUMMATION CAPITAL)GarvanMcCarthy (MARSH)MarkBaumgartner (UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA INVESTMENT CORPORATION)SharcusSTEEN (UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION)
16:25
16:25 - 16:55
LP Congress | The big summary
Wrap-up session concluding the key trends that have been observed across the day, taking the temperature of where private markets are at and informing LP-GP dialogue over the next two days of IPEM Global 2026.
GregorySchmitt (MEAG (GLOBAL ASSET MANAGER OF MUNICH RE AND ERGO))PhilippeRoesch (RIAM)JordiBasco Carrera (ALLIANZ GROUP)JenniferCHOI (ILPA)
16:55 - 17:00
LP Congress | Closing Remarks
SarahStartup (IPEM)
19:00
19:00 - 22:00
IPEM Global 2026 Opening Reception
Open to all!

Conference Room

Full Program
Plenary Room (level 2)
Sep 9, 2026
9:00 AM5:00 PM

Plenary Room Day 1

EY

Full Program

Summits

Full Program
Summit Room 3 (level 3)
Sep 9, 2026
9:30 AM1:00 PM

Independent Sponsors Summit

Keyhaven Capital

Cascadia Capital

HEADWAY CAPITAL PARTNERS

TritonLake

Full Program

Event Agenda

Sed cautela nimia in peiores haeserat plagas, ut narrabimus postea, aemulis consarcinantibus insidias graves apud Constantium, cetera medium principem sed siquid auribus eius huius modi quivis infudisset ignotus, acerbum et inplacabilem et in hoc causarum titulo dissimilem sui
September 8, 2026
08:50 - 09:00
LP Congress | Welcome to the LP Congress
Presented by Antoine Colson
AntoineCOLSON (IPEM)
09:00 - 09:10
LP Congress | Opening remarks by French Minister, Roland Lescure
09:00 - 17:00
LP Congress Plenary Room (LP Only Session)
SarahStartup (IPEM)
09:10 - 09:30
LP Congress | Rethinking illiquidity, and active portfolio management
Illiquidity, up until now a fundament feature of private markets, is being reframed. The maturing secondary market is providing a new tool for active management; allowing LPs to sell on a programmatic cadence and recycle capital into better vintages. Does this mean private allocations are moving towards similar treatment as liquid portfolios? What are the consequences for private markets in an allocation? Are there risks to long-term patient capital becoming more impatient?
AntoineCOLSON (IPEM)GabrielMollerberg (GOLDMAN SACHS ALTERNATIVES)LoySong (GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES PENSION SERVICE)
09:30 - 09:50
LP Congress | Views on asset allocation
As companies stay private for longer and liquidity solutions evolve, how do investment offices adopt the right approach to asset allocation? What role do private markets now play? Do ongoing rolling shocks demand a more agile approach?
AndreaAuerbach (CAMBRIDGE ASSOCIATES)
09:50 - 10:20
LP Congress | What does a new era of partnership look like?
The case for being bolder and more creative with GP relationships. LPs trend towards fewer, deeper partnerships with their managers. What are they looking for? Why did they take the decision? How do you make it a success?
JoanaRocha Scaff (NEUBERGER BERMAN)BenoitValentin (TEMASEK)JenniferCHOI (ILPA)
10:20 - 10:40
LP Congress | A safe pair of hands? Understanding the risk-return relationship in PE
Oliver presents new research on how risk is related to performance in PE and how LPs can diagnose the specific risk mitigation skills of a GP
OliverGOTTSCHALG (GOTTSCHALG)
10:40 - 11:20
LP Congress | How to manage the tension between primaries and secondaries
Now that the secondary market is so large (and continuing to mature), we explore what tension it may create with making primary commitments. After all, the secondary market gives the optionality for vintage diversification, faster deployment and visible NAV. How do you balance both primary with secondary commitments within the same programme? Have secondaries have become so attractive on a risk-adjusted basis that they're cannibalising primary appetite?
KaseyJi (OMERS)JoshSCOTT (PENSIONS & INVESTMENTS)Maria LuciaAguilar-Wittmann (ALLIANZ GLOBAL INVESTORS)
11:20 - 11:30
LP Congress | Morning Break
11:30 - 15:10
LP Congress Breakout Room 1 (LP Only Session)
JohnHolloway (CAPNOR)
11:30 - 12:05
LP Congress | What to look for in the lower mid-market
Addressing the trend towards outperformance among lower mid-market buyout. Performance dispersion is greater. What does the research say?
MichaelElio (STEPSTONE GROUP)
11:30 - 16:15
LP Congress Breakout Room 2 (LP Only Session)
DENISEKo GENOVESE (IPEM)
11:30 - 12:05
LP Congress | Who pays the price for liquidity?
Liquidity has not disappeared; it is being manufactured, and LPs are often left bearing the costs. James O'Donnell (Gibson Dunn) reviews the liquidity toolkit, examines who bears the costs and on what terms, and leaves attendees with the terms to negotiate and seven questions to ask.
JamesO’DONNELL (GIBSON DUNN)
11:30 - 11:50
LP Congress | Benchmarking private debt returns
GregoryBROWN (INSTITUTE FOR PRIVATE CAPITAL)
11:50 - 12:20
LP Congress | Private debt - the road to 2030
On private debt, 29% of allocators have a somewhat worse view on opportunities in the asset class compared to last year - the lowest approval rating across all private asset classes. Performance disperson could be to blame, as managers are being tested by their ability to manage credit risk in the face of market uncertainty. Yet the addressable market continues to grow and premium to liquid credit remains a fundamental allocation driver. In this session, we challenge speakers to take a long-term view on where the market is headed and what will determine it’s future.
MatthewCraig-Greene (WAGTAILS PRIVATE MARKETS)DeepahColombel (CRÉDIT AGRICOLE ASSURANCES)JamesReynolds (GOLDMAN SACHS ALTERNATIVES)RolandFohn (STATE STREET INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT)
12:05 - 12:40
LP Congress | LP Engagement in Private Markets: From Monitoring to Influence
Long-term asset owners are under mounting pressure to act on their own commitments on climate, governance, social and human rights issues across a 20-30 year horizon. Manager engagement offers a practical means of doing so that goes beyond reporting and monitoring. Yet GPs are left guessing how far they are expected to go and over what timeline. When they ask, many LPs struggle to say what they want and by when. This peer-to-peer roundtable explores how LPs foster effective engagement, including how to set clear expectations, give the necessary direction and share knowledge. The conversation will also focus on the practical - how to get started, what support is required and collective versus solo initiatives. Active participation and questions will be highly encouraged.
ImèneMAHARZI (WEASTEM)EmmanuelPARMENTIER (WEASTEM)
12:05 - 12:40
LP Congress | How to diligence a CV
The practical considerations that LPs must take when presented with a decision to roll or cash out.
ValerieHANDAL (HARBOURVEST PARTNERS)
13:00 - 14:00
LP Congress | Lunch
14:00 - 14:35
LP Congress | Engaging with GPs about the demands of retail and institutional capital
Framing the conversations that allocators and distributors are having with managers about greater access for individual investors in private markets. How can institutional investors look to protect their privileged access? What do distributors view as an outlook?
GretaTeot (MEDIOBANCA)ValentinPillet (Société Générale Private Banking (SGPB))BrianDIGNEY (STANDARDS BOARD FOR ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENTS)CyrilDEMARIA-BENGOCHEA (BANK JULIUS BAER)
14:00 - 14:40
LP Congress | Are the days of information asymmetry numbered?
So much of the data behind private markets is inaccessible to allocators. The true indicators of performance, deal and asset-level data, sit with managers, bankers and deal teams. While LPs get fund-level IRR/MOIC/TVPI (and little else), quarterly NAV is GP-determined with no independent measure. Existing benchmarks measure fund returns rather than company fundamentals. How much appetite is there for LPs to push their GPs for explicit disclosure? Are company fundamentals benchmarks the key to empowering smarter allocator decisions?
AnitaRana (Hamilton Lane)PreethamNanda (JP MORGAN SECURITIES LTD)BoutrosTHIERY (MARSH)ShrirangDeshmukh (JP MORGAN SECURITIES LTD)
14:00 - 14:40
LP Congress | The Next Phase of Asia's Secondaries Market
Asia secondaries are at an inflection point. With Asia's private equity market now exceeding $3 trillion in AUM and approximately $1.6 trillion of unexited capital overhang, the need for liquidity solutions has never been greater. Asia secondaries are evolving from a niche strategy into a rapidly expanding opportunity set. This session will examine the key forces driving the market forward, discuss the rise of LP-led transactions, GP-led continuation vehicles and growing institutional demand, and explore where the most compelling opportunities are emerging.
MelissaMa (ASIA ALTERNATIVES)
14:35 - 15:10
LP Congress | Where diversification goes next
The mantra of being diversified, but not too diversified, has long been the key to success for many private market allocators. Which is why it was surprising just how concentrated software is within portfolios. Geographical diversification has also become more challenging. Not only is the world bifurcating into geopolitical power blocs, but the debate about sovereignty of capital being deployed within the same borders is becoming more prevalent. What is this doing to challenge the principles of how to build a diversified portfolio? Software may have been the first, but will not be the last to face AI disruption - are there other sectors now to prioritise or rotate out from?
LauraMERLINI (CAIA ASSOCIATION)JessicaSellam (ROTHSCHILD & CO)EllenVan Den Broek (LGPS CENTRAL POOL)NiklasJörger (PG3)AndersStrömblad (AP-FONDEN 2)
14:40 - 15:10
LP Congress | Getting emerging managers past the IC
The proliferation of spin-out teams continues. Great talent, with strong track record, setting out on their own to offer something different. For some, it’s hard to get comfortable with the risk profile, yet the outperformance is hard to ignore. How have LPs convinced the IC?
TaffiAyodele (OFFICE OF THE NYC COMPTROLLER)BettySALANIC (ACCELERATE INVESTORS)DiegoAlaimo (GENERALI ASSET MANAGEMENT)DeeSharma (NORTHERN TRUST ASSET MANAGEMENT)
14:40 - 15:10
LP Congress | Hunting for Alpha: Which Managers Truly Beat the Market?
Private markets lack a reliable way to measure true manager skill versus market performance. Is manager selection more art than science? This session introduces privateAlpha® a new platform by SIPA (part of PEI) - free to access for LPs - that provides hundreds of fund and manager rankings to identify who's outperforming and how often. privateAlpha offers a rigorous methodology for measuring alpha in private equity and infrastructure using asset-level, mark-to-market indices instead of unreliable peer groups of fund-level data. LPs can use this platform to select managers, benchmark fund performance, and monitor their portfolio .
FredericBlanc-Brude (SIPA, PART OF PEI)
15:10 - 15:25
LP Congress | Afternoon Break
15:25 - 15:55
LP Congress | From Data to Decisions: Building an Information Edge in Private Markets
How leading investors are turning intelligence into a competitive advantage.
AdamStimpert (NASDAQ EVESTMENT™)SaraTomlinson (NASDAQ EVESTMENT™)
15:25 - 15:55
LP Congress | Agentic allocators - the reality of AI implementation in LP investment offices
Blue-sky session examining how AI is transforming the job of being an allocator.
VictoriaSienczewski (AUUMAI)RyanKULIG (UTAH SCHOOL AND INSTITUTIONAL TRUST FUNDS OFFICE (SITFO))
15:55 - 16:25
LP Congress | What’s in the CIO’s inbox?
CIOs are having to navigate investment strategy as the world economy is being rewired by disruption and rewritten by geopolitics. What do they see on the horizon? Strong returns in public markets are mirrored by spluttering private markets. What are the priorities in the year ahead within their own investment programmes? What role does private markets play five years from now?
RogerVINCENT (SUMMATION CAPITAL)GarvanMcCarthy (MARSH)MarkBaumgartner (UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA INVESTMENT CORPORATION)SharcusSTEEN (UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION)
16:25 - 16:55
LP Congress | The big summary
Wrap-up session concluding the key trends that have been observed across the day, taking the temperature of where private markets are at and informing LP-GP dialogue over the next two days of IPEM Global 2026.
GregorySchmitt (MEAG (GLOBAL ASSET MANAGER OF MUNICH RE AND ERGO))PhilippeRoesch (RIAM)JordiBasco Carrera (ALLIANZ GROUP)JenniferCHOI (ILPA)
16:55 - 17:00
LP Congress | Closing Remarks
SarahStartup (IPEM)
19:00 - 22:00
IPEM Global 2026 Opening Reception
Open to all!

Event Agenda

Sed cautela nimia in peiores haeserat plagas, ut narrabimus postea, aemulis consarcinantibus insidias graves apud Constantium, cetera medium principem sed siquid auribus eius huius modi quivis infudisset ignotus, acerbum et inplacabilem et in hoc causarum titulo dissimilem sui
September 8, 2026
08:50
08:50 - 09:00
LP Congress | Welcome to the LP Congress
Presented by Antoine Colson
AntoineCOLSON (IPEM)
09:00
09:00 - 17:00
LP Congress Plenary Room (LP Only Session)
SarahStartup (IPEM)
09:00 - 09:10
LP Congress | Opening remarks by French Minister, Roland Lescure
09:10 - 09:30
LP Congress | Rethinking illiquidity, and active portfolio management
Illiquidity, up until now a fundament feature of private markets, is being reframed. The maturing secondary market is providing a new tool for active management; allowing LPs to sell on a programmatic cadence and recycle capital into better vintages. Does this mean private allocations are moving towards similar treatment as liquid portfolios? What are the consequences for private markets in an allocation? Are there risks to long-term patient capital becoming more impatient?
AntoineCOLSON (IPEM)GabrielMollerberg (GOLDMAN SACHS ALTERNATIVES)LoySong (GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES PENSION SERVICE)
09:30 - 09:50
LP Congress | Views on asset allocation
As companies stay private for longer and liquidity solutions evolve, how do investment offices adopt the right approach to asset allocation? What role do private markets now play? Do ongoing rolling shocks demand a more agile approach?
AndreaAuerbach (CAMBRIDGE ASSOCIATES)
09:50 - 10:20
LP Congress | What does a new era of partnership look like?
The case for being bolder and more creative with GP relationships. LPs trend towards fewer, deeper partnerships with their managers. What are they looking for? Why did they take the decision? How do you make it a success?
JoanaRocha Scaff (NEUBERGER BERMAN)BenoitValentin (TEMASEK)JenniferCHOI (ILPA)
10:20
10:20 - 10:40
LP Congress | A safe pair of hands? Understanding the risk-return relationship in PE
Oliver presents new research on how risk is related to performance in PE and how LPs can diagnose the specific risk mitigation skills of a GP
OliverGOTTSCHALG (GOTTSCHALG)
10:40 - 11:20
LP Congress | How to manage the tension between primaries and secondaries
Now that the secondary market is so large (and continuing to mature), we explore what tension it may create with making primary commitments. After all, the secondary market gives the optionality for vintage diversification, faster deployment and visible NAV. How do you balance both primary with secondary commitments within the same programme? Have secondaries have become so attractive on a risk-adjusted basis that they're cannibalising primary appetite?
KaseyJi (OMERS)JoshSCOTT (PENSIONS & INVESTMENTS)Maria LuciaAguilar-Wittmann (ALLIANZ GLOBAL INVESTORS)
11:20
11:20 - 11:30
LP Congress | Morning Break
11:30 - 15:10
LP Congress Breakout Room 1 (LP Only Session)
JohnHolloway (CAPNOR)
11:30 - 16:15
LP Congress Breakout Room 2 (LP Only Session)
DENISEKo GENOVESE (IPEM)
11:30 - 11:50
LP Congress | Benchmarking private debt returns
GregoryBROWN (INSTITUTE FOR PRIVATE CAPITAL)
11:30 - 12:05
LP Congress | What to look for in the lower mid-market
Addressing the trend towards outperformance among lower mid-market buyout. Performance dispersion is greater. What does the research say?
MichaelElio (STEPSTONE GROUP)
11:30 - 12:05
LP Congress | Who pays the price for liquidity?
Liquidity has not disappeared; it is being manufactured, and LPs are often left bearing the costs. James O'Donnell (Gibson Dunn) reviews the liquidity toolkit, examines who bears the costs and on what terms, and leaves attendees with the terms to negotiate and seven questions to ask.
JamesO’DONNELL (GIBSON DUNN)
11:50 - 12:20
LP Congress | Private debt - the road to 2030
On private debt, 29% of allocators have a somewhat worse view on opportunities in the asset class compared to last year - the lowest approval rating across all private asset classes. Performance disperson could be to blame, as managers are being tested by their ability to manage credit risk in the face of market uncertainty. Yet the addressable market continues to grow and premium to liquid credit remains a fundamental allocation driver. In this session, we challenge speakers to take a long-term view on where the market is headed and what will determine it’s future.
MatthewCraig-Greene (WAGTAILS PRIVATE MARKETS)DeepahColombel (CRÉDIT AGRICOLE ASSURANCES)JamesReynolds (GOLDMAN SACHS ALTERNATIVES)RolandFohn (STATE STREET INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT)
12:05
12:05 - 12:40
LP Congress | How to diligence a CV
The practical considerations that LPs must take when presented with a decision to roll or cash out.
ValerieHANDAL (HARBOURVEST PARTNERS)
12:05 - 12:40
LP Congress | LP Engagement in Private Markets: From Monitoring to Influence
Long-term asset owners are under mounting pressure to act on their own commitments on climate, governance, social and human rights issues across a 20-30 year horizon. Manager engagement offers a practical means of doing so that goes beyond reporting and monitoring. Yet GPs are left guessing how far they are expected to go and over what timeline. When they ask, many LPs struggle to say what they want and by when. This peer-to-peer roundtable explores how LPs foster effective engagement, including how to set clear expectations, give the necessary direction and share knowledge. The conversation will also focus on the practical - how to get started, what support is required and collective versus solo initiatives. Active participation and questions will be highly encouraged.
ImèneMAHARZI (WEASTEM)EmmanuelPARMENTIER (WEASTEM)
13:00
13:00 - 14:00
LP Congress | Lunch
14:00
14:00 - 14:40
LP Congress | Are the days of information asymmetry numbered?
So much of the data behind private markets is inaccessible to allocators. The true indicators of performance, deal and asset-level data, sit with managers, bankers and deal teams. While LPs get fund-level IRR/MOIC/TVPI (and little else), quarterly NAV is GP-determined with no independent measure. Existing benchmarks measure fund returns rather than company fundamentals. How much appetite is there for LPs to push their GPs for explicit disclosure? Are company fundamentals benchmarks the key to empowering smarter allocator decisions?
AnitaRana (Hamilton Lane)PreethamNanda (JP MORGAN SECURITIES LTD)BoutrosTHIERY (MARSH)ShrirangDeshmukh (JP MORGAN SECURITIES LTD)
14:00 - 14:35
LP Congress | Engaging with GPs about the demands of retail and institutional capital
Framing the conversations that allocators and distributors are having with managers about greater access for individual investors in private markets. How can institutional investors look to protect their privileged access? What do distributors view as an outlook?
GretaTeot (MEDIOBANCA)ValentinPillet (Société Générale Private Banking (SGPB))BrianDIGNEY (STANDARDS BOARD FOR ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENTS)CyrilDEMARIA-BENGOCHEA (BANK JULIUS BAER)
14:00 - 14:40
LP Congress | The Next Phase of Asia's Secondaries Market
Asia secondaries are at an inflection point. With Asia's private equity market now exceeding $3 trillion in AUM and approximately $1.6 trillion of unexited capital overhang, the need for liquidity solutions has never been greater. Asia secondaries are evolving from a niche strategy into a rapidly expanding opportunity set. This session will examine the key forces driving the market forward, discuss the rise of LP-led transactions, GP-led continuation vehicles and growing institutional demand, and explore where the most compelling opportunities are emerging.
MelissaMa (ASIA ALTERNATIVES)
14:35 - 15:10
LP Congress | Where diversification goes next
The mantra of being diversified, but not too diversified, has long been the key to success for many private market allocators. Which is why it was surprising just how concentrated software is within portfolios. Geographical diversification has also become more challenging. Not only is the world bifurcating into geopolitical power blocs, but the debate about sovereignty of capital being deployed within the same borders is becoming more prevalent. What is this doing to challenge the principles of how to build a diversified portfolio? Software may have been the first, but will not be the last to face AI disruption - are there other sectors now to prioritise or rotate out from?
LauraMERLINI (CAIA ASSOCIATION)JessicaSellam (ROTHSCHILD & CO)EllenVan Den Broek (LGPS CENTRAL POOL)NiklasJörger (PG3)AndersStrömblad (AP-FONDEN 2)
14:40 - 15:10
LP Congress | Getting emerging managers past the IC
The proliferation of spin-out teams continues. Great talent, with strong track record, setting out on their own to offer something different. For some, it’s hard to get comfortable with the risk profile, yet the outperformance is hard to ignore. How have LPs convinced the IC?
TaffiAyodele (OFFICE OF THE NYC COMPTROLLER)BettySALANIC (ACCELERATE INVESTORS)DiegoAlaimo (GENERALI ASSET MANAGEMENT)DeeSharma (NORTHERN TRUST ASSET MANAGEMENT)
14:40 - 15:10
LP Congress | Hunting for Alpha: Which Managers Truly Beat the Market?
Private markets lack a reliable way to measure true manager skill versus market performance. Is manager selection more art than science? This session introduces privateAlpha® a new platform by SIPA (part of PEI) - free to access for LPs - that provides hundreds of fund and manager rankings to identify who's outperforming and how often. privateAlpha offers a rigorous methodology for measuring alpha in private equity and infrastructure using asset-level, mark-to-market indices instead of unreliable peer groups of fund-level data. LPs can use this platform to select managers, benchmark fund performance, and monitor their portfolio .
FredericBlanc-Brude (SIPA, PART OF PEI)
15:10
15:10 - 15:25
LP Congress | Afternoon Break
15:25 - 15:55
LP Congress | Agentic allocators - the reality of AI implementation in LP investment offices
Blue-sky session examining how AI is transforming the job of being an allocator.
VictoriaSienczewski (AUUMAI)RyanKULIG (UTAH SCHOOL AND INSTITUTIONAL TRUST FUNDS OFFICE (SITFO))
15:25 - 15:55
LP Congress | From Data to Decisions: Building an Information Edge in Private Markets
How leading investors are turning intelligence into a competitive advantage.
AdamStimpert (NASDAQ EVESTMENT™)SaraTomlinson (NASDAQ EVESTMENT™)
15:55 - 16:25
LP Congress | What’s in the CIO’s inbox?
CIOs are having to navigate investment strategy as the world economy is being rewired by disruption and rewritten by geopolitics. What do they see on the horizon? Strong returns in public markets are mirrored by spluttering private markets. What are the priorities in the year ahead within their own investment programmes? What role does private markets play five years from now?
RogerVINCENT (SUMMATION CAPITAL)GarvanMcCarthy (MARSH)MarkBaumgartner (UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA INVESTMENT CORPORATION)SharcusSTEEN (UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION)
16:25
16:25 - 16:55
LP Congress | The big summary
Wrap-up session concluding the key trends that have been observed across the day, taking the temperature of where private markets are at and informing LP-GP dialogue over the next two days of IPEM Global 2026.
GregorySchmitt (MEAG (GLOBAL ASSET MANAGER OF MUNICH RE AND ERGO))PhilippeRoesch (RIAM)JordiBasco Carrera (ALLIANZ GROUP)JenniferCHOI (ILPA)
16:55 - 17:00
LP Congress | Closing Remarks
SarahStartup (IPEM)
19:00
19:00 - 22:00
IPEM Global 2026 Opening Reception
Open to all!

Event Agenda

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September 8, 2026
08:50
08:50 - 09:00
LP Congress | Welcome to the LP Congress
Presented by Antoine Colson
AntoineCOLSON (IPEM)
09:00
09:00 - 17:00
LP Congress Plenary Room (LP Only Session)
SarahStartup (IPEM)
09:00 - 09:10
LP Congress | Opening remarks by French Minister, Roland Lescure
09:10 - 09:30
LP Congress | Rethinking illiquidity, and active portfolio management
Illiquidity, up until now a fundament feature of private markets, is being reframed. The maturing secondary market is providing a new tool for active management; allowing LPs to sell on a programmatic cadence and recycle capital into better vintages. Does this mean private allocations are moving towards similar treatment as liquid portfolios? What are the consequences for private markets in an allocation? Are there risks to long-term patient capital becoming more impatient?
AntoineCOLSON (IPEM)GabrielMollerberg (GOLDMAN SACHS ALTERNATIVES)LoySong (GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES PENSION SERVICE)
09:30 - 09:50
LP Congress | Views on asset allocation
As companies stay private for longer and liquidity solutions evolve, how do investment offices adopt the right approach to asset allocation? What role do private markets now play? Do ongoing rolling shocks demand a more agile approach?
AndreaAuerbach (CAMBRIDGE ASSOCIATES)
09:50 - 10:20
LP Congress | What does a new era of partnership look like?
The case for being bolder and more creative with GP relationships. LPs trend towards fewer, deeper partnerships with their managers. What are they looking for? Why did they take the decision? How do you make it a success?
JoanaRocha Scaff (NEUBERGER BERMAN)BenoitValentin (TEMASEK)JenniferCHOI (ILPA)
10:20
10:20 - 10:40
LP Congress | A safe pair of hands? Understanding the risk-return relationship in PE
Oliver presents new research on how risk is related to performance in PE and how LPs can diagnose the specific risk mitigation skills of a GP
OliverGOTTSCHALG (GOTTSCHALG)
10:40 - 11:20
LP Congress | How to manage the tension between primaries and secondaries
Now that the secondary market is so large (and continuing to mature), we explore what tension it may create with making primary commitments. After all, the secondary market gives the optionality for vintage diversification, faster deployment and visible NAV. How do you balance both primary with secondary commitments within the same programme? Have secondaries have become so attractive on a risk-adjusted basis that they're cannibalising primary appetite?
KaseyJi (OMERS)JoshSCOTT (PENSIONS & INVESTMENTS)Maria LuciaAguilar-Wittmann (ALLIANZ GLOBAL INVESTORS)
11:20
11:20 - 11:30
LP Congress | Morning Break
11:30 - 15:10
LP Congress Breakout Room 1 (LP Only Session)
JohnHolloway (CAPNOR)
11:30 - 16:15
LP Congress Breakout Room 2 (LP Only Session)
DENISEKo GENOVESE (IPEM)
11:30 - 11:50
LP Congress | Benchmarking private debt returns
GregoryBROWN (INSTITUTE FOR PRIVATE CAPITAL)
11:30 - 12:05
LP Congress | What to look for in the lower mid-market
Addressing the trend towards outperformance among lower mid-market buyout. Performance dispersion is greater. What does the research say?
MichaelElio (STEPSTONE GROUP)
11:30 - 12:05
LP Congress | Who pays the price for liquidity?
Liquidity has not disappeared; it is being manufactured, and LPs are often left bearing the costs. James O'Donnell (Gibson Dunn) reviews the liquidity toolkit, examines who bears the costs and on what terms, and leaves attendees with the terms to negotiate and seven questions to ask.
JamesO’DONNELL (GIBSON DUNN)
11:50 - 12:20
LP Congress | Private debt - the road to 2030
On private debt, 29% of allocators have a somewhat worse view on opportunities in the asset class compared to last year - the lowest approval rating across all private asset classes. Performance disperson could be to blame, as managers are being tested by their ability to manage credit risk in the face of market uncertainty. Yet the addressable market continues to grow and premium to liquid credit remains a fundamental allocation driver. In this session, we challenge speakers to take a long-term view on where the market is headed and what will determine it’s future.
MatthewCraig-Greene (WAGTAILS PRIVATE MARKETS)DeepahColombel (CRÉDIT AGRICOLE ASSURANCES)JamesReynolds (GOLDMAN SACHS ALTERNATIVES)RolandFohn (STATE STREET INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT)
12:05
12:05 - 12:40
LP Congress | How to diligence a CV
The practical considerations that LPs must take when presented with a decision to roll or cash out.
ValerieHANDAL (HARBOURVEST PARTNERS)
12:05 - 12:40
LP Congress | LP Engagement in Private Markets: From Monitoring to Influence
Long-term asset owners are under mounting pressure to act on their own commitments on climate, governance, social and human rights issues across a 20-30 year horizon. Manager engagement offers a practical means of doing so that goes beyond reporting and monitoring. Yet GPs are left guessing how far they are expected to go and over what timeline. When they ask, many LPs struggle to say what they want and by when. This peer-to-peer roundtable explores how LPs foster effective engagement, including how to set clear expectations, give the necessary direction and share knowledge. The conversation will also focus on the practical - how to get started, what support is required and collective versus solo initiatives. Active participation and questions will be highly encouraged.
ImèneMAHARZI (WEASTEM)EmmanuelPARMENTIER (WEASTEM)
13:00
13:00 - 14:00
LP Congress | Lunch
14:00
14:00 - 14:40
LP Congress | Are the days of information asymmetry numbered?
So much of the data behind private markets is inaccessible to allocators. The true indicators of performance, deal and asset-level data, sit with managers, bankers and deal teams. While LPs get fund-level IRR/MOIC/TVPI (and little else), quarterly NAV is GP-determined with no independent measure. Existing benchmarks measure fund returns rather than company fundamentals. How much appetite is there for LPs to push their GPs for explicit disclosure? Are company fundamentals benchmarks the key to empowering smarter allocator decisions?
AnitaRana (Hamilton Lane)PreethamNanda (JP MORGAN SECURITIES LTD)BoutrosTHIERY (MARSH)ShrirangDeshmukh (JP MORGAN SECURITIES LTD)
14:00 - 14:35
LP Congress | Engaging with GPs about the demands of retail and institutional capital
Framing the conversations that allocators and distributors are having with managers about greater access for individual investors in private markets. How can institutional investors look to protect their privileged access? What do distributors view as an outlook?
GretaTeot (MEDIOBANCA)ValentinPillet (Société Générale Private Banking (SGPB))BrianDIGNEY (STANDARDS BOARD FOR ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENTS)CyrilDEMARIA-BENGOCHEA (BANK JULIUS BAER)
14:00 - 14:40
LP Congress | The Next Phase of Asia's Secondaries Market
Asia secondaries are at an inflection point. With Asia's private equity market now exceeding $3 trillion in AUM and approximately $1.6 trillion of unexited capital overhang, the need for liquidity solutions has never been greater. Asia secondaries are evolving from a niche strategy into a rapidly expanding opportunity set. This session will examine the key forces driving the market forward, discuss the rise of LP-led transactions, GP-led continuation vehicles and growing institutional demand, and explore where the most compelling opportunities are emerging.
MelissaMa (ASIA ALTERNATIVES)
14:35 - 15:10
LP Congress | Where diversification goes next
The mantra of being diversified, but not too diversified, has long been the key to success for many private market allocators. Which is why it was surprising just how concentrated software is within portfolios. Geographical diversification has also become more challenging. Not only is the world bifurcating into geopolitical power blocs, but the debate about sovereignty of capital being deployed within the same borders is becoming more prevalent. What is this doing to challenge the principles of how to build a diversified portfolio? Software may have been the first, but will not be the last to face AI disruption - are there other sectors now to prioritise or rotate out from?
LauraMERLINI (CAIA ASSOCIATION)JessicaSellam (ROTHSCHILD & CO)EllenVan Den Broek (LGPS CENTRAL POOL)NiklasJörger (PG3)AndersStrömblad (AP-FONDEN 2)
14:40 - 15:10
LP Congress | Getting emerging managers past the IC
The proliferation of spin-out teams continues. Great talent, with strong track record, setting out on their own to offer something different. For some, it’s hard to get comfortable with the risk profile, yet the outperformance is hard to ignore. How have LPs convinced the IC?
TaffiAyodele (OFFICE OF THE NYC COMPTROLLER)BettySALANIC (ACCELERATE INVESTORS)DiegoAlaimo (GENERALI ASSET MANAGEMENT)DeeSharma (NORTHERN TRUST ASSET MANAGEMENT)
14:40 - 15:10
LP Congress | Hunting for Alpha: Which Managers Truly Beat the Market?
Private markets lack a reliable way to measure true manager skill versus market performance. Is manager selection more art than science? This session introduces privateAlpha® a new platform by SIPA (part of PEI) - free to access for LPs - that provides hundreds of fund and manager rankings to identify who's outperforming and how often. privateAlpha offers a rigorous methodology for measuring alpha in private equity and infrastructure using asset-level, mark-to-market indices instead of unreliable peer groups of fund-level data. LPs can use this platform to select managers, benchmark fund performance, and monitor their portfolio .
FredericBlanc-Brude (SIPA, PART OF PEI)
15:10
15:10 - 15:25
LP Congress | Afternoon Break
15:25 - 15:55
LP Congress | Agentic allocators - the reality of AI implementation in LP investment offices
Blue-sky session examining how AI is transforming the job of being an allocator.
VictoriaSienczewski (AUUMAI)RyanKULIG (UTAH SCHOOL AND INSTITUTIONAL TRUST FUNDS OFFICE (SITFO))
15:25 - 15:55
LP Congress | From Data to Decisions: Building an Information Edge in Private Markets
How leading investors are turning intelligence into a competitive advantage.
AdamStimpert (NASDAQ EVESTMENT™)SaraTomlinson (NASDAQ EVESTMENT™)
15:55 - 16:25
LP Congress | What’s in the CIO’s inbox?
CIOs are having to navigate investment strategy as the world economy is being rewired by disruption and rewritten by geopolitics. What do they see on the horizon? Strong returns in public markets are mirrored by spluttering private markets. What are the priorities in the year ahead within their own investment programmes? What role does private markets play five years from now?
RogerVINCENT (SUMMATION CAPITAL)GarvanMcCarthy (MARSH)MarkBaumgartner (UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA INVESTMENT CORPORATION)SharcusSTEEN (UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION)
16:25
16:25 - 16:55
LP Congress | The big summary
Wrap-up session concluding the key trends that have been observed across the day, taking the temperature of where private markets are at and informing LP-GP dialogue over the next two days of IPEM Global 2026.
GregorySchmitt (MEAG (GLOBAL ASSET MANAGER OF MUNICH RE AND ERGO))PhilippeRoesch (RIAM)JordiBasco Carrera (ALLIANZ GROUP)JenniferCHOI (ILPA)
16:55 - 17:00
LP Congress | Closing Remarks
SarahStartup (IPEM)
19:00
19:00 - 22:00
IPEM Global 2026 Opening Reception
Open to all!

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