StepStone hosted a Thought Leadership Forum last week in Geneva, bringing together a small group for a focused discussion on small and mid‑market private equity.
The conversation centered around how shifting capital flows, policy dynamics, and geopolitical changes are shaping
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- Colleagues across StepStone recently gathered in New York for Leadership Week, a week of development programming and team building. The week brought together the latest cohort of StepStone’s sponsorship program, which pairs high-performing employees with partner sponsors and
- Members of StepStone's Zurich team recently represented the firm at PK Messe, connecting with stakeholders and the Swiss pension fund community. Switzerland’s largest pension fund conference, PK Messe draws a wide range of participants and serves as an important point of
- Last week we kicked off our intern speaker series with John Weng, a VP on our Venture Capital team who’s grown his career at StepStone. He shared a candid look at how expectations evolve early in your career, from building your skillset to taking on more ownership and figuring
- StepStone’s Jeff Giller, Margaret McKnight, and Liz Ptacek recently contributed to PREA Quarterly, looking at how real estate investing is evolving alongside private equity and infrastructure. As strategies move beyond asset-level investing and market conditions shift — from
- StepStone and @PitchBook have launched SPI Deal Benchmarking, now generally available within the PitchBook platform. As part of the partnership, StepStone’s deal-level benchmarks are accessible through both PitchBook and SPI by StepStone, helping investors analyze performance
- StepStone Managing Director Alesia Dawidowicz, CFA will be speaking on a panel at the upcoming Institutional Investor DACH Summit on June 18 in Zurich. The panel, “Cockroaches in the Coalmine?”, will examine how to read stress in private credit markets, looking at when defaults
- Where is buyout alpha coming from? StepStone Partner Aditya Fontana-Raina will join the panel "Alpha, Engineering, and Alignment: Buyouts After the Peak" at the Boston Private Markets Meeting on June 12 to examine what’s driving buyout returns today. Be sure connect with Aditya
- StepStone’s 2026 summer internship class has arrived! This week marked the start of our U.S. summer internship program, with teams welcoming our newest group of interns. Selected from more than 22K applications, this year’s class includes 78 interns from 49 universities,
- Germany is Europe’s largest economy, but its private equity market has consistently rewarded precision over broad-based exposure. Returns have concentrated in specific pockets: software, IT services, insurance brokerage, and education, backed by locally-rooted,
- StepStone Managing Director Colin Donnelly will be speaking on the panel “The rise of industrial” at the Real Estate Midwest Forum in Chicago on June 4. Industrial real estate continues to gain momentum as logistics, manufacturing, and data centers expand. This panel will
- Join Margaret McKnight, Partner and Head of Portfolio Solutions, and members of SRE's research team for StepStone's House Views Webinar on Tuesday, June 2 at 11am ET, where they will discuss insights from StepStone Real Estate’s Spring 2026 House Views report. The conversation
- StepStone Group reported results for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2026. Visit our shareholder page to listen to the replay ▶️ bit.ly/3AWPanE



























