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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) announced promotions effective March 10, 2026, naming 11 new partners, 1 new senior managing director and 18 new managing directors. The announcement lists promoted individuals, their base locations and team assignments across private equity, venture, private debt, real estate, tax, portfolio management and investor relations.
The company highlighted continued performance and growth, and the CEO congratulated the promoted leaders for contributing to client results and firm expansion.
Glade Brook closed the oversubscribed Gondola Fund with over $1 billion in capital commitments on March 10, 2026. The Fund was anchored by StepStone Group (Nasdaq: STEP) with participation from affiliates of BlackRock and was raised in under four months.
The Gondola Fund acquires and manages a concentrated portfolio of growth-equity assets spun out of Glade Brook Strategic Growth III, providing SG III investors with full or partial liquidity or the option to re-subscribe while bringing new long-term capital into the portfolio. Firmwide assets under management exceed $4 billion, more than 100% growth year-on-year.
StepStone Group (Nasdaq: STEP) on March 9, 2026 announced a stock repurchase program authorizing up to $100 million to buy Class A common stock. The company cited strong free cash flow and a framework balancing its recurring quarterly dividend with a supplemental annual dividend. Repurchases may occur via open market, privately negotiated transactions or Rule 10b5-1 plans, and will be subject to management discretion, market conditions and legal requirements. The program may be modified, suspended or discontinued and does not obligate the company to repurchase any shares.
StepStone (NYSE:STEP) and Bain released their 2026 Private Equity GP Outlook based on a Dec 2025–Jan 2026 survey of 100+ GP investment and IR professionals across North America and Europe. Key themes: value creation as the primary return driver, valuation as the top deal obstacle, rising use of continuation vehicles, fee pressure and discounts, sustained demand for co-investments, and growing secondary-market importance.
The report highlights AI helping deal sourcing and diligence, while ~40% of GPs expect no material AI financial impact in 2026 within portfolios.
StepStone Real Estate (Nasdaq: STEP) was awarded Global Indirect Firm of the Year and European Deal of the Year by PERE on March 2, 2026. The European award recognized SRE's recapitalization of Vitalia via SREP V, its GP-led secondaries fund.
Jeff Giller, Partner and Head of StepStone Real Estate, highlighted the honors as recognition of the firm's leadership in real estate secondaries and co-investments and the strength of its GP-led secondaries platform.
StepStone Group (Nasdaq: STEP) announced that CEO Scott Hart and Head of Strategy Mike McCabe will present at the RBC Capital Markets Global Financial Institutions Conference on Tuesday, March 10, 2026 at 4:00 pm ET.
A live webcast and replay will be available via StepStone's investor website.
StepStone Group (Nasdaq: STEP) announced a partnership with Utmost to give UK-based clients access to StepStone’s evergreen private markets strategies across private equity, venture & growth, private credit, and private infrastructure.
The agreement aims to broaden UK savers’ portfolio diversification and aligns with government-backed initiatives to boost investment in unlisted equities. StepStone said its private wealth AUM tripled in the past fifteen months.
StepStone Group (Nasdaq: STEP) reported third-quarter fiscal 2026 results for the period ended December 31, 2025, and declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.28 per share, payable March 13, 2026 to holders of record as of February 27, 2026.
Management will host a webcast and conference call on February 5, 2026 at 5:00 pm ET; a replay will be available on the Shareholders section of the company website.
StepStone Real Estate (NYSE:STEP) hired Jennifer Jones as a Partner to launch S-Core, a global Core/Core+ real estate platform. Jones will be based in San Francisco and oversee a global investment mandate after nearly two decades at UBS, where she led over $20 billion in transactions and served on a $100+ billion real estate team. StepStone says S-Core will expand its Core/Core+ activities across secondaries, co-investments, tactical operating-company investments and primary fund commitments, initially using customized separate accounts. In 2025, StepStone allocated over $17 billion to funds, secondaries and co-investments and held 1,000+ GP meetings to support S-Core deal sourcing.
StepStone Group (Nasdaq: STEP) will release third quarter fiscal 2026 results for the quarter ended December 31, 2025 after market close on Thursday, February 5, 2026. Management will host a webcast and earnings conference call on February 5, 2026 at 5:00 pm ET to discuss the quarter. The live webcast and replay will be available on the Shareholders section of the company website. Investors should visit the site at least 15 minutes before the call to register. Participants who want to join the live Q&A must register via the provided registration link to receive dial-in details and a PIN. A replay will be posted approximately two hours after the event concludes.