August 2026: Ten Largest Single Filings, Ranked

Ranking every individual vehicle filed in August 2026 by dollar size produces a top ten that spans all four fund-type categories tracked during the month. JPMorgan Core Bond Trust led at USD 15.78 billion, filed August 7, the single largest vehicle of the month. Makena Capital Associates US LP followed at USD 13.475 billion, filed on the month's final day, August 31. TPG Rise Climate II Europe filed USD 7.398 billion on August 3. AQR TA Delphi Plus Fund filed USD 6.831 billion on August 20. Hudson Bay Fund filed USD 6.459 billion on August 7. THL Equity Fund X filed USD 6.01 billion on August 20. Tahquamenon Fund filed USD 5.866 billion on August 14. Vintage X Flagship Offshore filed USD 5.849 billion on August 28. KKR Asian Fund V filed USD 5.212 billion on August 14. Brookfield Infrastructure Debt Fund IV-S rounded out the top ten at USD 4.661 billion, filed August 19.

No Single Category Dominates the Top of the List

Of these ten filings, three are other investment funds (JPMorgan Core Bond Trust, Makena Capital Associates, Vintage X Flagship Offshore), three are private equity funds (TPG Rise Climate, THL Equity Fund X, KKR Asian Fund V), three are hedge funds (AQR TA Delphi Plus, Hudson Bay Fund, Tahquamenon Fund), and one is a real estate and infrastructure debt vehicle (Brookfield Infrastructure Debt Fund IV-S). That even spread across categories, despite hedge funds carrying the largest aggregate dollar total for the month overall, shows that August's very largest individual filings were not concentrated in any one strategy type.

Two Days Produced Four of the Top Ten

August 7 and August 14 each produced two of the month's ten largest single filings, JPMorgan Core Bond Trust and Hudson Bay Fund on the former, Tahquamenon Fund and KKR Asian Fund V on the latter, reinforcing the earlier finding that these two specific trading days carried an outsized share of the month's total capital. August 20 also produced two top-ten filings, AQR TA Delphi Plus and THL Equity Fund X, both landing on the same date coincidentally rather than as part of any coordinated activity.

Ranking by Vehicle Instead of by Manager

This ranking counts individual vehicles rather than aggregating by parent manager; ranked by manager instead, as the AQR and Makena profiles elsewhere in this series show, AQR's combined USD 35.98 billion and Makena's combined USD 28.72 billion would both outrank every single vehicle on this top-ten list except JPMorgan Core Bond Trust. That distinction, single-vehicle ranking versus manager-level ranking, produces two defensible but different answers to the simple-sounding question of "who moved the most capital in August," and readers should be clear about which version of the question a given ranking is actually answering.

What Almost Made the List

Just outside the top ten, several vehicles filed within striking distance: Bank Loan Core Fund filed USD 4.541 billion on August 6, Wellington Management Investors (Bermuda) filed USD 4.438 billion on August 4, and AQR Emerging Equities Fund filed USD 4.327 billion on August 13, that last one a separate AQR vehicle from the two that made the top ten outright, underscoring again how much of August's largest-filing activity traced back to a small handful of repeat managers. The gap between the tenth-largest filing, Brookfield Infrastructure Debt Fund IV-S at USD 4.661 billion, and these runners-up is narrow, within a few hundred million dollars, meaning a slightly different snapshot date or data cut could easily reshuffle several positions in this ranking without changing the broader story. Founders can review related coverage of India's SEBI-registered fund universe for a sense of how differently scaled institutional filing activity looks outside the mega-fund tier profiled here.

What This Means for Founders

None of the ten largest filings in August 2026 wrote a single startup check, a useful reminder that the very top of the institutional capital-markets filing list and the venture capital ecosystem that founders navigate are almost entirely separate worlds, connected only distantly through the broader flow of capital through the financial system. Founders should treat headline mega-filing rankings like this one as market color rather than a signal about their own fundraising environment. The venture capital vehicle that would need to appear on a comparable "top ten" list to meaningfully move the needle for a typical seed-stage founder is smaller by roughly three orders of magnitude than the vehicles that dominate this ranking, underscoring just how differently scaled the two capital markets really are. Founders can browse the investor directory on AngelLinx for investors actually active at the startup stage, use the investor match tool to find funds suited to an early-stage raise, and check the live listing for current founder activity. Founders ready to build their investor list can register on AngelLinx to get started.

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