German secondaries firm Paragon Partners has sold the remaining three companies from its 2006 fund as it works to raise a new fund.
1 min read · 09 June 2011
French group AXA Private Equity, led by Dominique Senequier, has sealed the acquisition of a $1.7bn portfolio of assets from Citigroup, 14 months after a similar deal with Bank of America.
2 min read · 08 June 2011
The $74bn pension has launched a competitive auction for a portfolio of fund stakes worth more than $1bn.
2 min read · 06 June 2011
The $113bn pension has issued a request for proposal for a firm to run a sale of private equity and possibly real estate fund interests on the secondaries market. Proposals are due 21 June.
2 min read · 31 May 2011
The US pension may, if the price is right, sell up to $1bn-worth of private equity holdings on the secondaries market.
3 min read · 25 March 2011
The asset class is seeing funds come to market with dedicated allocations to secondaries, such as funds-of-funds recently closed by Partners Group and Pantheon. A €500m block of infrastructure fund interests currently up for sale also indicates dealflow is picking up sharply.
3 min read · 11 March 2011
The secondaries firm has hired two deal sourcing agents in Mumbai as it looks to expand its presence in emerging markets.
2 min read · 09 February 2011
The state’s $70bn pension is considering selling a big chunk of its private equity portfolio to pare down relationships and potentially ‘kick-start’ the programme that has been mostly inactive for two years.
2 min read · 03 February 2011
The $14.5bn state endowment wants to pare down its private equity portfolio, which contains 150 funds from 80 GPs, to a size that its small staff can better manage. No word yet on the potential size of the sale.
2 min read · 01 February 2011
The $226bn pension is selling a chunk of its private equity portfolio that includes a large amount of mega-fund holdings.
2 min read · 31 January 2011