The bank’s Strategic Partners group has closed its fifth secondaries fund at a time of intense activity on the market from banks and public pensions selling chunks of their private equity holdings.
3 min read · 15 February 2012
The Swiss-based private markets investment firm says discounts to net asset values improved from the buyer’s perspective for secondary real estate portfolios towards the end of last year.
3 min read · 25 January 2012
The $51bn pension is dedicating $100m for opportunistic secondaries and co-investments with existing managers.
2 min read · 20 January 2012
The sovereign wealth fund is using the secondary market for its first-ever intermediated sale of private equity stakes as it works to trim down the size of its portfolio. UBS is running the process.
2 min read · 18 January 2012
The city’s pension system has put an initial offering of about $750m-worth of LP stakes on the secondary market, kick-starting what could be a very busy year for private equity secondaries.
4 min read · 13 January 2012
The firm’s fifth global secondaries fund could collect at least half of its $750m target by March, giving Adams Street hefty buying power in what is expected to be an intense deal environment during the first two quarters.
2 min read · 12 January 2012
The private equity-focused investment bank has made three promotions in London and Dallas.
2 min read · 06 January 2012
The Japanese private equity firm has attracted Japanese pension fund investments and expects to launch a successor fund for Greater China in 2012.
1 min read · 22 December 2011
Coller Capital has agreed the latest in a slew of banking-related secondaries this year sparked by the forthcoming Volcker rule, acquiring the in-house private equity arm of French bank Crédit Agricole.
1 min read · 16 December 2011
Nearly 50 percent of investors are stuck with commitments to so-called ‘zombie funds’, according to Coller Capital’s Winter Barometer.
3 min read · 12 December 2011
