Kirk Falconer

'This is the best time ever for investing – and yet it’s hard to get capital,' said Ryan Hinkle, managing director of Insight Partners.

If 20% of expected climate investment is accounted for by private markets, TPG executive chairman Jim Coulter said, 'spending... will be bigger than the entire private equity industry is today.'

The alts giant recorded $8bn of capital from private wealth, including $2.7bn for its private equity strategy targeting individual investors.

'We went from everybody wants to have an ILPA template to everybody wants ILPA-plus,' Petra managing partner Stephen Coats said.

Gensler’s overarching goal, he said, is to 'bring more sunshine and competition to the private funds space.'

'In today’s environment, as prices continue to go up, our emphasis will be on keeping our head down and investing heavily in capabilities to create our own deal opportunities,' Sperling says.