The strategy is an increasingly popular way of refreshing global private equity exposure in the region, and buyers need to be savvy about the terrain, writes Atlantic-Pacific Capital’s Charles Wan.
4 min read · 07 December 2017
Headway Capital Partners’ Christiaan de Lint says his firm, with its knack for direct secondaries, relishes ‘handling deals that other secondaries buyers don’t like’.
4 min read · 05 December 2017
The asset manager is coming full circle with the appointment of Mark McDonald.
2 min read · 01 December 2017
How many hires? What targets? Why the buyside? Deutsche Asset Management’s new head of secondaries speaks to Secondaries Investor.
3 min read · 30 November 2017
Cyril Demaria, head of private markets at Wellershoff & Partners, argues secondaries provide a false sense of security to investors and that the benefits of mitigating the J-curve may have been oversold to LPs.
4 min read · 24 November 2017
CalPERS is reviewing its strategy of consolidating PE commitments into fewer managers. What will that mean for the industry?
3 min read · 17 November 2017
The Paradise Papers offer titbits to titillate readers. For the private equity industry, however, there are more important trends to consider.
3 min read · 10 November 2017
Credit Suisse’s Jonathan Abecassis responds to our assessment of GP-led fund restructurings and the need for a genuine ‘do-nothing’ option for LPs.
3 min read · 06 November 2017
Temasek’s upcoming Astrea IV deal could herald a way for retail investors to access private equity in earnest.
3 min read · 03 November 2017