Sales of tail-end fund stakes are expected to increase this year, so buyers will have to carefully weigh the enticing discounts against some potential portfolio howlers.
3 min read · 11 March 2016
While infrastructure accounted for just $1.6bn of the secondaries market last year, funds needing liquidity solutions could be valued at tens of billions.
4 min read · 04 March 2016
Dealflow in real estate secondaries jumped 71% last year and market participants say another rise this year will be dependent of a couple of things.
3 min read · 26 February 2016
Leveraging a portfolio for liquidity can be similar to refinancing a property, but what effect does this have on the secondaries market?
3 min read · 19 February 2016
Financial institutions may have missed the boat in terms of pricing, but this won’t deter them from returning to the market as sellers this year for several reasons.
3 min read · 12 February 2016
Tail-end opportunities, the beauty of volatility and the proliferation of GP-led transactions were among the topics broached at an industry event in London this week.
3 min read · 05 February 2016
Secondaries firms are increasingly divesting stakes they’ve picked up on the secondaries market. What gives?
3 min read · 29 January 2016
Good deals at a discount have been becoming harder to find in Europe for a while now, so what are GPs doing if they’re not playing the discount game?
3 min read · 22 January 2016
A generational boom in fund liquidations could prompt an explosion in direct secondaries activity.
3 min read · 15 January 2016
A maturing secondaries market may help address some of the historic challenges preventing defined contribution retirement plans from investing in private equity.
2 min read · 08 January 2016
