Pensions

While Australian super funds may buy ‘if the price is right’, these pensions are closely monitoring the long-term impacts of current volatility.

Having last acquired infra secondary assets in 2017, the €616bn Dutch pension manager may tap the fast-growing market again, says infra chief Jan-Willem Ruisbroek.

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.

The two continuation funds involve four assets from Leonard Green’s 2011-vintage Green Equity Investors VI, which NIC backed in 2011.

The Australian superannuation fund, which was looking to sell prior to the US’s tariff announcements, is facing difficulty gauging pricing amid recent uncertainty, head of PE Jenny Newmarch tells Secondaries Investor.

Here are responses from industry thought leaders including Goldman Sachs, Carlyle, Apollo and NYCRS across areas such as dealmaking, fundraising and secondaries.

The hire comes a month after NYCRS closed a more than $5.5bn sale to Blackstone Strategic Partners.

Some LPs are thrilled with the options being offered amid rising portfolio sale activity, while others are less receptive.

Four out of NYCRS’ five pension systems are selling a more than $5.5bn portfolio to Blackstone Strategic Partners in a deal set to close at the end of March.

While $1bn portfolios are a more common factor in the market today, New York City’s sale stands apart as among the largest of all time.