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Desi Co, co-founder of advisory business Accord Group, explains why some secondaries investors are offering real estate managers a chance to keep their properties through non-traditional deals.

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’.

How many hires? What targets? Why the buyside? Deutsche Asset Management’s new head of secondaries speaks to Secondaries Investor.

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.

The fund of funds unit of Standard Life Investments closed its third secondaries fund in October. Secondaries Investor speaks to its head of secondaries about the fundraise, investor expectations and negotiating a ‘lumpy’ market.

Cipio Partners’ Roland Dennert discusses the kind of deals he is seeing, the problem with unicorns and how a maturing tech industry is likely to mean larger funds in future.

Sister publication Agri Investor spoke to Stafford Capital Partners’ Bernd Schanzenbaecher to find out more about the firm’s agriculture strategy days after it made its first investment in the asset class.

Ian Charles, a partner on Landmark Partners’ private equity team and Jamie Sunday, a partner on the firm’s real estate team, discuss the market’s challenges and their predictions for the rest of 2017

Hans Swildens is chief executive and founder of the venture capital-focused fund of funds and secondaries specialist. He speaks to Secondaries Investor about who’s selling what, the rise of corporate spin-outs, and how small and complex rules the day.

Ian Charles, a partner on Landmark Partners’ private equity team and Jamie Sunday, a partner on the firm’s real estate team, discuss how secondaries transactions worth more than $1bn may lead to a record year for deal volume.