The autumn anchor of the European private capital circuit, held 3 to 6 November 2026 at the Hotel Okura Amsterdam: three specialist summits on day one, two main conference days, an invitation-only family office track, and an access model under which qualifying institutional investors attend free while managers pay.
SuperReturn Europe is the European flagship of the SuperReturn private capital conference series, run by Informa Connect and held each autumn in Amsterdam. It exists to put institutional limited partners and fund general partners in the same building for four days: the limited partners are pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, insurers, endowments, foundations and consultants, and the general partners are private equity, private debt and secondaries managers raising or deploying capital. Its 2026 subject range is private debt, secondaries, semi-liquid funds, distributions, private wealth, and artificial intelligence and technology investing. The event carries the SuperInvestor name in its history, having been renamed to SuperReturn Europe, which matters when searching older coverage. The 2026 edition runs 3 to 6 November 2026 at the Hotel Okura Amsterdam. Source: informaconnect.com/superreturneurope/ and the database record, consulted 18 September 2026.
SuperReturn Europe 2026 runs Tuesday 3 to Friday 6 November 2026, four days. The venue is the Hotel Okura Amsterdam, a single hotel rather than a convention centre, which is deliberate: a conference whose value is concentrated access works better in a building where everyone keeps running into everyone else. The four days are structured rather than uniform: three specialist summits run on day one and can be moved between freely, the main conference occupies the middle days, and an invitation-only family office track runs on day four. SuperReturn Family Office Europe 2026 is dated 5 November 2026 in Amsterdam as part of the wider event. The conference runs annually in early November. Source: informaconnect.com/superreturneurope/ and informaconnect.com/superreturn/events/, consulted 18 September 2026.
SuperReturn Europe is organised by Informa Connect, the events division of Informa, which runs the SuperReturn series across regions and asset classes: SuperReturn International, SuperReturn Secondaries Europe, SuperReturn Family Office Europe and others. That series structure has a practical consequence for a frequent attendee, since Informa Connect sells a SuperReturn Edge season ticket covering multiple events in the series rather than requiring separate purchases. Registration and ticketing run through Informa Connect's own platform. The series has run since 2001. Source: informaconnect.com/superreturn/ and informaconnect.com/superreturn-international/superreturn-edge-season-ticket/, consulted 18 September 2026.
More than 1,500 senior decision-makers attend, comprising more than 500 limited partners representing a self-reported USD 10 trillion in assets under management and more than 750 general partners, drawn from more than 50 countries. The organiser states the event is structured to enable more than 45,000 face-to-face meetings, which is the metric that actually describes what the four days are for. Access is controlled by category rather than open: limited partners are invited and attend free on qualification, general partners register on a tiered basis, and service providers are admitted selectively. The limited partner base spans pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, insurers, banks, corporate investors, development finance institutions, endowments, foundations, investment consultants, registered investment advisers, single family offices and wealth managers. Source: informaconnect.com/superreturneurope/ and informaconnect.com/superreturneurope/lps-offering/, consulted 18 September 2026.
The name is the change a returning attendee most needs to register: this event carries the SuperInvestor heritage and now runs as SuperReturn Europe, so searches, expense codes and internal calendars referring to SuperInvestor point at the same conference. On content, the 2026 theme list is weighted toward the parts of the market that have absorbed capital as buyout exits slowed: private debt, secondaries, semi-liquid funds and distributions sit alongside private wealth and AI and technology investing. No structural change to the four-day format, the venue or the access model was found in the sources reachable on this pass. Source: informaconnect.com/superreturneurope/ and the database record, consulted 18 September 2026.
Four days in three parts. Day one carries three specialist summits running in parallel, which a summit-day ticket holder can move between at will rather than committing to one. The main conference days carry the plenary and track programme across the 2026 themes: private debt, secondaries, semi-liquid funds, distributions, private wealth, and AI and technology investing. Day four carries the invitation-only family office track, with SuperReturn Family Office Europe dated 5 November 2026. The published speaker roster for 2026 runs to at least 39 named participants, weighted toward the allocator side rather than the manager side, which is unusual and is what the limited partner audience comes for. Source: informaconnect.com/superreturneurope/ and the database record, consulted 18 September 2026.
The published roster on record runs to 39 names, given here in full: Thomas Friedberger of Tikehau Capital, Imogen Richards and Jamie Hayford of Pantheon, Mark Barry of the British Business Bank, Ellen van den Broek of LGPS Central, Valentina La Barba of Generali Asset Management, Rohan Dutt, Dan Aylott and Petros Krappas of Cambridge Associates, Marieke van Kamp of NN Group, Dana M. Haimoff of J.P. Morgan Asset Management, Amyn Pesnani of Triton Partners, Ana Maria Harrison of Adams Street Partners, Catherine Haumesser of Armen, Charlotte Dunley of Asante Capital, Cilian Jansen Verplanke of Karmijn Kapitaal, David Barbour of Pallant Capital, David Merriman of Beechbrook Capital, Dorte Hoppner of The Riverside Company, Edouard Durand of France Invest, Emlyn Ade Palmer of Albourne Partners, Erik Bakker of OHV Asset Management, Fay Margo of Brackendale Consulting, Frank Everaars of the European Investment Fund, Gabriella Kindert of Neptune Leasing, Holger Rossbach of Vorsprung Partners, Ian Milton of Mercia Capital Partners, Jack Whatton of Maxus Capital, James Roebuck of Opera Investment Partners AG, Jorg Goschin of KfW Capital, Kelly DePonte of KD Advisory LLC, Louis Trincano of Cornerstone Fund Placement, Lucas Fisher of Palladio Partners, Marc der Kinderen of 747 Capital, Merrick McKay of Patria Global Private Markets Solutions, Peter Knight of Connection Capital LLP, Umang Rajbhandari of bfinance, Verena Kempe of KENFO, and You-Ha Hyun of Perpetual Investors. This is the roster on record rather than a final programme, and further speakers are customarily added closer to the dates. Source: the database speaker record cross-checked against informaconnect.com/superreturneurope/, consulted 18 September 2026.
Five, and the meeting formats matter more than the stage ones. The specialist summits on day one are parallel deep-dive programmes. The main conference runs plenary and track sessions. LP-only sessions are closed to managers, which is the format that makes attendance worth an allocator's week. Roundtables run small-group discussion. Speed networking runs structured introductions. Underneath all of it, the event record confirms both B2B matchmaking and advance meeting scheduling are available, which is how the organiser's figure of more than 45,000 face-to-face meetings is generated: attendees book each other before arriving. The record confirms no replay access, so nothing is available afterwards. Source: informaconnect.com/superreturneurope/ and the database record, consulted 18 September 2026.
The organiser's own satellite programming is substantial and sits inside the ticket structure rather than beside it: three specialist summits on day one and the invitation-only family office track on day four, with SuperReturn Family Office Europe dated 5 November 2026. Beyond that, an event that concentrates 500 institutional investors in one Amsterdam hotel generates a dense private schedule of manager dinners, placement agent receptions and bilateral meetings, none of which is published and much of which is the actual reason attendees travel. National private equity associations, including the Dutch NVP, the Swedish SVCA and the Ukrainian UVCA, promote the event to their members and organise member participation. Searched: the official site, the SuperReturn events index and national association listings. Source: informaconnect.com/superreturn/events/ and national association listings, consulted 18 September 2026.
Not published as a public tariff: the organiser's own listing gives the price as available on request through its booking flow, and the package selector at informaconnect.com/superreturneurope/purchase/select-package/ is where an actual figure is produced. Three things about the pricing are documented and matter more than the number. Qualifying limited partners attend free: complimentary attendance is offered to LPs from banks, corporate investors, development finance institutions, endowments, foundations, insurance companies, investment consultants, pension funds, registered investment advisers, single family offices, sovereign wealth funds and wealth managers, subject to qualification, and the applicant must be a member of the LP's investment team whose primary focus is investing in GP funds. General partners pay on a tiered basis and service providers are admitted selectively. And booking the specialist summit day as part of a package rather than separately saves GBP 600. Informa Connect also sells a SuperReturn Edge season ticket across the series. Source: informaconnect.com/superreturneurope/lps-offering/, informaconnect.com/superreturneurope/faqs/ and the database record, consulted 18 September 2026.
Not publicly disclosed as an open process. The event record shows the call-for-papers status as closed, and no submission form, selection criteria or deadline was found for the 2026 edition. The roster's composition indicates how places are assigned: it is weighted toward allocators, consultants and placement professionals, the people the paying general partner audience wants to hear from, which means the organiser curates for audience demand rather than accepting submissions. At a conference where general partners pay and limited partners do not, speaking slots for managers also carry an obvious commercial dimension that the organiser does not describe publicly. The practical route is an approach to Informa Connect's SuperReturn team. Source: informaconnect.com/superreturneurope/ and the database record, consulted 18 September 2026.
Sponsorship runs through Informa Connect, with enquiries handled through informaconnect.com/superreturneurope/. No public sponsorship tier ladder or pricing was retrievable in the sources reachable on this pass, so terms are quoted. The named sponsors on record for the event are Ares, The Riverside Company, Triton Investment Advisers, General Atlantic and Tikehau Capital, which is itself informative: the sponsors are fund managers rather than service providers, meaning sponsorship here is a fundraising instrument aimed at the 500 limited partners in the building rather than a brand exercise. A service provider considering sponsorship should note that the access model admits service providers only selectively, so the audience is deliberately kept free of them. Source: informaconnect.com/superreturneurope/ and the database record, consulted 18 September 2026.
Five sponsors are named on record: Ares, The Riverside Company, Triton Investment Advisers, General Atlantic and Tikehau Capital. All five are private capital managers rather than service businesses, and several appear on the speaker roster as well, Thomas Friedberger for Tikehau Capital, Dorte Hoppner for The Riverside Company and Amyn Pesnani for Triton Partners, which shows how sponsorship and programme presence connect at this event. That list is the record's, not an exhaustive 2026 partner page, and the official site should be treated as authoritative once the full roster is published. Separately, eight outlets hold official media partner status: Dealflower (media partner), FundsPeople (media partner), Funds Society (media partner), ILPA (media partner), IPE (media partner), PitchBook (media partner), Private Equity Magazine (media partner) and Private Equity Marketeer (media partner). Source: the database sponsor and media partner records cross-checked against informaconnect.com, consulted 18 September 2026.
Two populations in a deliberate ratio. On the allocator side, more than 500 limited partners: pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, insurers, banks, corporate investors, development finance institutions, endowments, foundations, investment consultants, registered investment advisers, single family offices and wealth managers, collectively representing a self-reported USD 10 trillion. The named roster gives the texture, with LGPS Central, NN Group, Generali Asset Management, the European Investment Fund, KfW Capital, KENFO, the British Business Bank and consultants Cambridge Associates, Albourne Partners and bfinance all present. On the manager side, more than 750 general partners across buyout, growth, private debt and secondaries. Placement agents and fund advisers, Asante Capital, Cornerstone Fund Placement, KD Advisory, are the third group. Service providers without a capital-raising or allocating role are admitted only selectively, and their scarcity is a feature. Source: informaconnect.com/superreturneurope/lps-offering/ and the database record, consulted 18 September 2026.
Not publicly disclosed as a documented process. No media accreditation page, press contact, eligibility criteria or deadline was found on the event's own pages in the sources reachable on this pass. What is documented is the media partner structure: eight outlets hold official partner status, including PitchBook (media partner), IPE (media partner), FundsPeople (media partner) and ILPA (media partner), which suggests the organiser's media relations run largely through contracted partnerships rather than through open accreditation. An unaffiliated journalist should approach Informa Connect's SuperReturn team directly and should expect access to be restricted, given that the event's value proposition to attendees rests on closed LP-only sessions and confidential fundraising conversations. Searched: the official site's FAQ, package and LP offering pages. Source: informaconnect.com/superreturneurope/faqs/ and the database record, consulted 18 September 2026.
Coverage runs almost entirely through the private capital trade press, and most of it is contracted. Eight outlets hold official media partner status: Dealflower (media partner), FundsPeople (media partner), Funds Society (media partner), ILPA (media partner), IPE (media partner), PitchBook (media partner), Private Equity Magazine (media partner) and Private Equity Marketeer (media partner). Alongside those, national private equity associations publish the event to their members, including the Dutch NVP, the Swedish SVCA and the Ukrainian UVCA, which is promotion rather than reporting. The organiser publishes through informaconnect.com and maintains a video channel at youtube.com/@SuperReturnTV. Independent reporting on the substance of the conference was not located on this pass, which is consistent with an event built around closed sessions. Source: the items named above and the database media partner record, consulted 18 September 2026.
Weak as an independent signal, with an unusually clean demonstration. Eight of the outlets covering this conference are its contracted media partners, including PitchBook (media partner), the private markets data provider whose figures are widely cited as neutral, and ILPA (media partner), the limited partner trade association whose endorsement carries particular weight with the allocator audience the event is selling access to. When a data provider and an investor association are both commercial partners of the conference, coverage volume and institutional endorsement stop being separate signals from marketing. The headline figures compound this: USD 10 trillion in limited partner assets under management is explicitly self-reported, the 45,000 face-to-face meetings is an organiser projection of a capability rather than a count, and none of the participant numbers is audited. What is checkable is the named 39-person speaker roster, which can be verified individually. Source: cross-reading of the media partner record against informaconnect.com, 18 September 2026.
Service providers, first, because the door is designed to keep most of them out: admission for anyone who is neither allocating nor raising capital is selective, and a law firm, fund administrator or technology vendor should not assume a ticket is purchasable. Venture capital managers are also poorly served: the agenda is buyout, private debt, secondaries and semi-liquids, and a seed or early-stage fund will find its limited partner base better represented elsewhere. Managers raising a first fund should weigh the economics carefully, since general partners pay tiered fees for access to investors who attend free and whose meeting diaries fill weeks in advance; arriving without pre-booked meetings wastes the ticket. And anyone wanting the content rather than the room should note there is no replay access at all. Source: informaconnect.com/superreturneurope/ and the database record, consulted 18 September 2026.
It is the autumn anchor of the European institutional circuit. Held in early November, it sits after the summer fundraising lull and before the year-end close, at the point where allocators are setting the following year's programme. Within the SuperReturn series it is the European flagship, with SuperReturn International, SuperReturn Secondaries Europe and SuperReturn Family Office Europe serving adjacent audiences. Against the rest of the private capital calendar, its distinguishing feature is the limited partner concentration under a controlled access model: 500 institutional investors attending free is a different proposition from a conference where anyone can buy a ticket. Its natural contrast in this registry is Patrimonia in Lyon five weeks earlier, which convenes the French retail advisory channel rather than institutional allocators, and the two serve entirely different fundraising strategies. Source: informaconnect.com/superreturn/events/ and the EventsIndex private capital registry, consulted 18 September 2026.
Yes, and the series is the point. Informa Connect runs SuperReturn events across regions and specialisms, including SuperReturn International, SuperReturn Secondaries Europe and SuperReturn Family Office Europe, the last of which runs inside the Amsterdam event on 5 November 2026 rather than separately. The full portfolio is listed at informaconnect.com/superreturn/events/, and the specific 2026 and 2027 dates and cities of the other editions were not established on this pass and are not listed here rather than listed wrongly (unverifiable information). For a frequent attendee, the practical consequence is the SuperReturn Edge season ticket, which covers multiple events in the series. Note also that this event was formerly known as SuperInvestor, so older references to a separate SuperInvestor conference point at this one. Source: informaconnect.com/superreturn/events/, consulted 18 September 2026.
English. The event record gives English as the sole working language, and an audience drawn from more than 50 countries makes any alternative impractical. No interpretation into other languages is documented. The Amsterdam venue poses no additional barrier, since English is the working language of Dutch financial services. Source: informaconnect.com/superreturneurope/ and the database record, consulted 18 September 2026.
No. The event record explicitly holds no replay access for this event, and no virtual pass, livestream or on-demand archive was found in the sources reachable on this pass. That absence is coherent with the product rather than an oversight: the value is closed LP-only sessions and pre-booked bilateral meetings, neither of which can be opened to a remote audience without destroying the confidentiality that brings allocators to Amsterdam in the first place. The organiser maintains a video channel at youtube.com/@SuperReturnTV carrying interview and promotional content, which is marketing rather than session access. Searched: the official site's FAQ, package and LP offering pages. Source: informaconnect.com/superreturneurope/faqs/ and the database record, consulted 18 September 2026.
Not retrievable in the sources reachable on this pass. Informa Connect publishes terms through its booking flow rather than on the event's public pages, and the organiser's frequently asked questions page at informaconnect.com/superreturneurope/faqs/ is the place to look before committing. Two features make the terms worth reading rather than assuming. Qualifying limited partners attend free, so the refund question applies only to paying general partners and admitted service providers, where the sums are substantial. And because the price is not published and is produced through a package selector, the cancellation terms attached to a given package may vary with the package, which is precisely the situation in which a buyer should get the terms in writing. Searched: the FAQ page, the package selection page and the LP offering page. Source: informaconnect.com/superreturneurope/faqs/, consulted 18 September 2026.
Not publicly disclosed at event level. No accessibility statement, accessible route guidance, accessible seating arrangement for the summit and conference rooms, or access contact was found on the event's own pages in the sources reachable on this pass. The venue is a point in the event's favour: the Hotel Okura Amsterdam is a large international hotel with conference facilities, and hotels of that class generally provide accessible rooms, lifts and step-free access to function space, but the hotel's provision is not the organiser's commitment and is not restated here as such. Because registration is a qualified, mediated process rather than an anonymous purchase, an attendee with access requirements has a direct contact route through Informa Connect and should use it. Searched: the official site's FAQ and practical pages. Source: informaconnect.com/superreturneurope/faqs/, consulted 18 September 2026.
The Hotel Okura Amsterdam is in the De Pijp area south of the city centre, on the Amstel canal, roughly fifteen to twenty minutes from Amsterdam Centraal by tram or taxi. Schiphol airport is around twenty minutes by road and is connected to Amsterdam Centraal and to Amsterdam Zuid by frequent trains, with Zuid the closer station to the venue; for most international attendees the practical route is a taxi or ride-hail from Schiphol directly. Amsterdam Zuid also serves the international Eurostar and Thalys network via Centraal. The venue being a hotel means many attendees stay on site, which is worth booking early for a conference that fills a single building. Source: informaconnect.com/superreturneurope/ and the venue address on record, consulted 18 September 2026.
Five hundred institutional investors do not pay to attend. Pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, insurers, endowments and consultants come free on qualification, and the qualification is specific: you must sit on the investment team and your primary business must be investing in other people's funds. Seven hundred and fifty general partners pay, on tiers, and service providers are let in only selectively. That structure is the entire product. An open-ticket conference would fill with law firms, administrators and fund technology vendors selling to the managers, the allocators would stop coming because their week would be consumed by people with nothing to allocate to, and the managers would stop paying because the allocators had gone. By making the scarce side free and the abundant side pay, and by policing the third side at the door, Informa Connect keeps the ratio at roughly three managers to two investors in a single hotel. The organiser's claim of 45,000 face-to-face meetings is a claim about that ratio more than about a booking system.
Two numbers do most of the persuading and neither can be checked. The USD 10 trillion in limited partner assets under management is described by the organiser's own record as self-reported: it sums what attending investors say they manage, counts the whole institution rather than the private markets allocation, and has no audit behind it. The 45,000 face-to-face meetings is a statement of what the format is structured to enable, not a count of what happened. The complication is that the outlets a reader would normally turn to for a second opinion are inside the tent: PitchBook (media partner), the data provider whose numbers the industry treats as neutral, and ILPA (media partner), the limited partner association whose endorsement is supposed to represent the allocator interest, are both contracted media partners of this conference. What survives independent scrutiny is the 39-name speaker roster, which is checkable person by person and which, read carefully, tells a manager more about whether the right allocators will be in the room than any trillion-dollar total.
Official site: informaconnect.com/superreturneurope/. Package selection and pricing: informaconnect.com/superreturneurope/purchase/select-package/. LP offering and free qualification criteria: informaconnect.com/superreturneurope/lps-offering/. Frequently asked questions: informaconnect.com/superreturneurope/faqs/. The wider SuperReturn series and its event calendar: informaconnect.com/superreturn/ and informaconnect.com/superreturn/events/. Season ticket: informaconnect.com/superreturn-international/superreturn-edge-season-ticket/. Social: linkedin.com/showcase/superreturn/, @SuperReturn on X, youtube.com/@SuperReturnTV, hashtag #SREurope.