Landmark Partners’ chief executive officer, Francisco Borges, says at $718m, Landmark Real Estate Fund VI is the largest single-pooled real estate secondary fund ever raised, while the market is still in the ‘early innings’ of the cycle.
2 min read · 05 April 2011
Abu Dhabi Capital Management is targeting $100m for its first-ever secondaries fund that will focus on investments mainly in the Middle East and North Africa.
1 min read · 29 March 2011
The US pension may, if the price is right, sell up to $1bn-worth of private equity holdings on the secondaries market.
3 min read · 25 March 2011
The asset class is seeing funds come to market with dedicated allocations to secondaries, such as funds-of-funds recently closed by Partners Group and Pantheon. A €500m block of infrastructure fund interests currently up for sale also indicates dealflow is picking up sharply.
3 min read · 11 March 2011
Blackstone spin-out Millennium is building its team in anticipation of what it believes will be a record-breaking year for secondary venture capital investments.
2 min read · 03 March 2011
James Sunday has been named partner at the Simsbury, Connecticut-based group, while Ira Shaw has been promoted to vice president.
1 min read · 03 March 2011
Munich-based senior principal Christoph Wedegaertner joined the direct secondaries specialist in 2005. The firm closed is sixth fund on €137m in January.
1 min read · 02 March 2011
The $34.6bn pension has been ‘overhauling’ its private equity programme to expand its capabilities around co-investing, secondaries and international investments.
1 min read · 28 February 2011
The secondaries firm has hired two deal sourcing agents in Mumbai as it looks to expand its presence in emerging markets.
2 min read · 09 February 2011
The state’s $70bn pension is considering selling a big chunk of its private equity portfolio to pare down relationships and potentially ‘kick-start’ the programme that has been mostly inactive for two years.
2 min read · 03 February 2011
