While secondaries deals are at their core simply trades, buyers have become more specialised, and advisors too have become more selective about the areas they compete in, according to Sixpoint Partners’ Shawn Schestag.
3 min read · 23 October 2016
SVG’s capitulation to HarbourVest’s final offer for its portfolio marks the end of a saga that may usher in a new era for secondaries.
2 min read · 21 October 2016
Recent SEC focus on fund restructuring has put pressure on GPs to make sure their limited partners get fair treatment during the process. Molly Diggins, general counsel for advisory firm Monument, who says LPs should make themselves heard and ask for greater transparency.
4 min read · 14 October 2016
As the drama over the London-listed private equity vehicle unfolds, PEI sizes up the dramatis personae.
4 min read · 07 October 2016
Macroeconomic concerns have weighed on secondaries market participants’ minds over the last 12 months and have had varied effects.
3 min read · 05 October 2016
Secondaries Investor has been in the Big Apple talking to market participants. Here’s how things look from North America.
3 min read · 30 September 2016
Adam Howarth, co-head of private equity secondaries at Partners Group, explains how heightened anxiety in the market is impacting activity at the firm and why secondaries returns will become increasingly mixed.
5 min read · 27 September 2016
Investing in primary funds has increasingly brought a strategic edge to secondaries buyers, especially as fund information becomes scarce.
3 min read · 23 September 2016
Listed private equity funds look like tempting targets for secondaries firms, but don’t expect a wave of consolidation.
3 min read · 16 September 2016
Our Young Guns of Secondaries list has been keeping us busy, but not as busy as some of the candidates.
2 min read · 09 September 2016
