Are secondaries too good to be true?

Cyril Demaria, head of private markets at Wellershoff & Partners, argues secondaries provide a false sense of security to investors and that the benefits of mitigating the J-curve may have been oversold to LPs. Secondaries Investor caught up with him about his latest study looking at the performance of secondaries versus funds of funds.

24 November 20174 mins read

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