Managers

After years of buying and selling secondaries as an allocator, Yangge Seaman believes that while institutional investors often have the appetite and capital to pursue deals, they aren’t able to follow through. Her new firm, Gordian Investment Group, aims to bridge that gap.

Golub Capital launched its GP-led strategy last September, pledging to commit $1bn.

As buyers position themselves in the market, they need to ensure they have all the ‘whistles and bells’ to cater to sellers and investors, CVC Secondary Partners’ head, Carlo Pirzio-Biroli, tells PEI Secondaries Investor.

A new name at the top of SI 50 shows how consolidation is changing the competitive landscape in the buyer universe.

The new head will spearhead liquidity solutions for the firm’s funds and oversee a range of semi-liquid fund strategies for the Denmark-headquartered infrastructure manager.

While more capital is entering infra secondaries, much of it is being deployed by relatively new entrants in a market characterised by variety, the Paris-headquartered asset manager’s co-CEO tells affiliate title PE Hub.

The GP stakes giant is ‘excited’ at the prospect of working with the tail-end specialist to grow it into ‘one of the premier operators in this market’, founding partner and chief executive John Carter tells Secondaries Investor.

Blue Owl has acquired a passive stake in the tail-end specialist, which will ‘ultimately represent’ approximately 25% of the economic interests of the firm.

Four of the firm’s cornerstone evergreen products are heavily weighted to secondaries investments.

Carlyle increasingly views AlpInvest as more of corporate finance business than a standalone secondaries unit, chief executive Harvey Schwartz said on the firm’s Q2 2026 earnings call.