Asset classes

Coller Capital, Park Hill and Campbell Lutyens are among the firms featured on PEI’s list of the 50 best fundraisers in private equity.

The niche secondaries firm has hit the €800m hard-cap on its latest fund, two months after Secondaries Investor revealed it had passed the €650m mark.

Offering liquidity at the end of a fund’s life may become standard, while energy funds are picking up steam.

The world’s largest private equity firm, which said the discrepancy was due to three-quarters of its investment team being male, pays men on average 30% more an hour.

The City of Fresno Retirement Systems is seeking a fund manager to construct a $120m private equity ‘fund of one’ which can include secondaries.

Private equity and real estate secondaries funds are seeking around $9bn more compared with the first quarter of last year.

Ryan Levitt, a decade-long veteran of the firm, has joined a turnaround, distressed debt and restructuring-focused investment firm, Secondaries Investor has learned.

Secondaries Investor’s annual law firm survey saw an increase in funds of funds and secondaries funds’ sell-side activity and a rise in complex deal types.

GPs need to show they can handle their end-of-life funds when raising a new fund.

Travails at the emerging markets private equity firm may present a buying opportunity, but it may be too big a stretch for most secondaries buyers.