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.
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