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With summer holidays a fading memory and after the return to school and office desks, it’s time to officially kick off the networking events season. The private assets world descended on Paris this week for the annual IPEM conference, where around 5,500 direct lenders, LPs and sponsors — and three 9fin reporters — gathered to talk shop.