Editor Insights

Private shares exchanges won’t solve PE’s liquidity woes

Exchange platforms must contend with a multitude of alternative liquidity paths for holders of private company stakes.

Barbarians at the buyside gate

Private equity firms are winning over senior buyside talent as they look to make their mark in the secondaries market.

Anything but a CV?

Recent survey findings underscore the importance for GPs to explore multiple paths to liquidity before settling upon a continuation fund process.

The path to third-party capital via secondaries

French banking giant Natixis and its affiliate Flexstone see the secondaries market as a potential way to grow third-party capital.

There’s a new deal type in town

Presenting: the buyer-led secondaries deal.

Secondaries and the city

Some 450 private markets professionals attended PEI Group’s 2025 Women in Private Markets Summit this week. With liquidity on the minds of many, the secondaries market was front and centre.

Volatility a trial by fire for evergreen community

Tariff turmoil could battle test the resolve of individual investors and their suitability for the burgeoning community of semi-liquid private markets funds.

A second chance for endowments

Yale’s sizeable portfolio sale could spur a number of endowments to follow suit – with programmatic seller Harvard in market alongside it.

Credit secondaries on course to outstrip PE’s dominance

The credit secondaries market is being rolled out ‘on steroids’, says Coller’s Michael Schad on the latest episode of Second Thoughts.

Liquidity at what price?

While some LPs that had planned to sell into the secondaries market this year are mulling whether the time is right, others are ploughing ahead with their processes – for now.