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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.
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.
StepStone Group (Nasdaq: STEP) and PitchBook announced a partnership to deliver StepStone’s deal-level benchmarks and operating metrics through the PitchBook platform.
The offering combines StepStone’s SPI deal-level data with PitchBook’s private capital data and AI tools, provides aggregated and anonymized outputs, and is expected to be available in Q2 2026.
StepStone Group (Nasdaq: STEP) will release fourth quarter and fiscal year results for the period ended March 31, 2026, after market close on May 20, 2026. A webcast and earnings conference call will be held the same day at 5:00 pm ET.
Webcast access, live registration instructions, and a replay available approximately two hours after the event are provided on the company's shareholders website. Live Q&A participation requires prior registration to receive dial-in details and a PIN.