Carlyle

A $485 Billion Platform Turning to Private Wealth

Carlyle is a global alternative asset manager founded in Washington, D.C. in 1987 by William Conway, Daniel D’Aniello, David Rubenstein, Stephen Norris and Greg Rosenbaum. The company listed on Nasdaq in 2012 and as of June 30, 2026 managed $485 billion across Global Private Equity ($163 billion), Global Credit ($211 billion) and Carlyle AlpInvest ($112 billion), with more than 2,500 people in 28 offices on four continents. The CEO since February 2023 is Harvey Schwartz, previously President and Co-Chief Operating Officer of Goldman Sachs. In private wealth the firm is pushing hard with evergreen products, which in the year to mid-2026 drew over $7 billion of gross sales and reached a record $20 billion in assets. For European individual investors that push arrives as ETAC, the private credit ELTIF run by Taj Sidhu and his European private credit team out of London and Luxembourg. It is currently the only Carlyle fund listed on Fundscouter.