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StepStone Group Inc. reports developments tied to its role as a global private markets investment firm providing customized investment solutions, advisory services, and data services. Its updates cover private equity, infrastructure, private debt, and real estate strategies, including fund closings, secondaries vehicles, credit opportunities, co-investments, and investment activity across private markets portfolios.
Company news also includes earnings announcements, capital allocation actions, leadership promotions, and data partnerships connected to StepStone’s proprietary SPI platform. Recurring disclosures describe how the firm serves institutional, private wealth, pension, sovereign wealth, insurance, endowment, foundation, and family office clients through private markets portfolio construction and analytics.
Gainline Capital Partners has closed a single-asset continuation fund to extend its partnership with Core Health & Fitness, a global commercial fitness equipment producer. The fund gives existing investors a liquidity option and raises follow-on capital to support Core’s continued growth and international expansion. The vehicle is anchored by StepStone Group as sole lead investor, alongside syndicate investors and Gainline’s existing limited and general partners.
Core, founded in 1992 and based in Vancouver, Washington, designs, manufactures, sells, installs, and services equipment under brands including StairMaster, Nautilus, Star Trac, Schwinn, Throwdown, Wexer and Gym Rax. The company serves gyms, studios, hospitality, multifamily and corporate wellness facilities in more than 75 countries.
StepStone Group (Nasdaq: STEP) announced that Head of Strategy Mike McCabe and President and Co-Chief Operating Officer Jason Ment will present at the Barclays Global Financial Services Conference on Monday, September 14, 2026, at 9:00 am ET. A live webcast and replay will be available via the StepStone shareholder website. As of June 30, 2026, StepStone was responsible for approximately $913 billion of total capital, including $245 billion of assets under management, across private equity, infrastructure, private debt and real estate strategies for a global institutional and private wealth client base.
StepStone Group (Nasdaq: STEP) closed fundraising for its StepStone Secondaries Infrastructure Fund (SSIF) and related separate accounts, securing $1.7 billion in total capital commitments. SSIF, StepStone’s first closed‑ended commingled infrastructure secondaries fund, focuses on acquiring LP interests in infrastructure funds and investing in GP‑led secondary transactions managed by third‑party infrastructure GPs.
The fund itself closed with $1.5 billion, surpassing its target and reaching its hard cap. As of August 2026, SSIF is about 50% deployed across 26 LP‑interest and GP‑led deals, many in the middle market. StepStone’s Infrastructure & Real Assets platform has deployed an average of $13 billion per year over the past three years and is part of a broader private markets business responsible for approximately $913 billion of total capital, including $245 billion of assets under management as of June 30, 2026.
StepStone Group (Nasdaq: STEP) reported results for the first quarter of fiscal 2027, covering the quarter ended June 30, 2026, and declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.33 per Class A share, payable September 15, 2026 to shareholders of record on August 31, 2026.
Management and advisory fees, net, rose to $269.2 million, up 27% year over year, while total revenues increased to $378.9 million, up 4%. Total performance fees declined 28% to $109.7 million. StepStone recorded a GAAP net loss of $170.4 million and a net loss attributable to the company of $115.8 million, or $(1.41) per basic and diluted Class A share.
Non‑GAAP metrics showed growth: fee revenues reached $270.9 million (+27%), fee-related earnings $105.6 million (+30%) with a 39% FRE margin, and adjusted net income of $60.3 million (+24%), or $0.48 per share. As of June 30, 2026, StepStone reported $245.4 billion in AUM and $667.9 billion in AUA.
StepStone Group (Nasdaq: STEP) will release financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2026, representing its first quarter of fiscal 2027, after the market close on Thursday, August 6, 2026. Management will host a webcast and earnings conference call at 5:00 p.m. ET the same day, accessible via the shareholders section of the company’s website, with a replay available about two hours after the event. Live Q&A participation requires advance registration to receive dial-in details and a PIN. As of March 31, 2026, StepStone was responsible for approximately $885 billion of total capital, including $233 billion of assets under management, across private equity, infrastructure, private debt and real estate strategies.
Corastone announced a partnership with UMB Fund Services to connect UMBFS and its clients to Corastone's private, permissioned blockchain (DLT) network for alternative investment servicing, with recordkeeping support from Envision.
StepStone (Nasdaq: STEP) is the first UMBFS client on the network, aiming to streamline subscriptions, reduce manual reconciliation, and improve data accuracy across transactions.
StepStone Group (Nasdaq: STEP) and PitchBook launched SPI Deal Benchmarking, now generally available to users of the PitchBook platform and SPI by StepStone. The solution integrates institutional-grade, deal-level performance and operating metrics into PitchBook workflows for private equity, venture capital, growth equity, and infrastructure.
According to StepStone and PitchBook, users can run granular, apples-to-apples benchmarking across strategies, industries, geographies, sizes, and time periods, with all outputs aggregated and anonymized. Features include enhanced deal analytics, clearer insight into performance drivers, support for rigorous underwriting, and improved investor relations and strategy development.
StepStone Group (Nasdaq: STEP) announced that CEO Scott Hart and Head of Strategy Mike McCabe will present at the Morgan Stanley US Financials Conference.
The presentation is scheduled for Tuesday, June 9, 2026, at 11:15 a.m. ET, with a live webcast and replay available on StepStone’s shareholder website.
StepStone Group (Nasdaq: STEP) reported results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended March 31, 2026. The Board declared a $0.28 quarterly cash dividend and a $0.55 supplemental dividend per Class A share, payable June 30, 2026 to shareholders of record June 15, 2026.
Management will host an earnings webcast and conference call on May 20, 2026 at 5:00 p.m. ET, with materials and replay available in the shareholders section of the company website.
StepStone Group (Nasdaq: STEP) hired Taylor Benson as Head of U.S. Defined Contribution to lead a new retirement-focused business. The initiative targets retirement fiduciaries seeking diversified private markets exposure aligned with plan governance, using an open-architecture, multi-asset approach and developing retirement-focused collective investment trusts.