French private equity group Idinvest, formerly the in-house arm of investment bank Allianz, has held a €100m first close on its new secondaries fund.
1 min read · 07 September 2012
A recent fund restructuring on the secondary market illustrates how secondaries firms can help create options for LPs in funds well beyond their contractual lives. By Christopher Witkowsky
7 min read · 04 September 2012
The restructuring, financed in part by an investor group that includes Landmark and Vision Capital, is seen as a way of providing options to LPs in a fund that has lived beyond its intended life.
4 min read · 29 August 2012
The $37bn retirement system is issuing an RFP for a consultant to assist in the engagement of the private equity secondary market.
2 min read · 24 August 2012
The $122bn pension system has completed its sale of private equity interests, selling ‘relationships’, according to Barry Miller, head of private equity in the city Comptroller’s office.
2 min read · 23 August 2012
The Zug-based private markets investment firm described in its latest research how it is placing its current real estate investing emphasis on investments in debt and secondaries, both direct and indirect, as it avoids a “herding mentality”.
2 min read · 21 August 2012
Coller Capital has agreed to pay Lloyds Banking Group £1.03bn for a portfolio of private equity investments, in a marquee deal that features an unusual structure.
2 min read · 15 August 2012
Chicago-based property services giant Jones Lang LaSalle has created a secondaries trading platform for Asia-Pacific private real estate funds by way of a monthly bulletin. The first batch of investments to hit the market was sent out last Friday and was valued at $250 million.
3 min read · 02 August 2012
Senior vice president Jared Barlow left Partners recently and is working on secondaries as an independent contractor.
1 min read · 01 August 2012
The $10.8bn system recently committed to Coller Capital as a way to ‘diversify existing private equity portfolios, obtain exposure to previously restricted funds and participate directly in select investments’.
2 min read · 25 July 2012
