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
Kate Ashton, a corporate partner at law firm Debevoise & Plimpton who counsels private equity and other investment funds, recently sat down with Secondaries Investor for a Q&A on fund restructurings.
4 min read · 28 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
More and more GPs are taking bundles of assets from expired infra funds and moving them into new, longer-dated yield-generating vehicles which they then open up to new LPs through stake sales.
3 min read · 20 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
As Ardian nears final close for its latest secondaries fund, we take a look at who’s backing its efforts and what that means for the wider industry.
2 min read · 18 December 2015
Secondaries advisors are increasingly incorporating fairness opinions into GP-led restructurings, giving LPs an independent perspective while providing insurance for fund managers. Overall, fairness opinions are seen as a step in the right direction toward better representation of LPs.
2 min read · 11 December 2015
If 2015 was the year of real estate secondaries, 2016 could be the year energy transactions come into their own.
2 min read · 04 December 2015
