Managers

AEA chairman quietly shops fund to invest in GP-led deals

As secondaries activity accelerates, more traditional buyout shops are exploring adding these capabilities.

Performance watch: Glendower’s returns since inception

All four of Glendower’s active secondaries funds have achieved their expected MOIC, according to CVC’s IPO prospectus.

Pantheon’s Leaf on the growth plan for her upcoming tenure as CEO

The firm’s incoming CEO aims to provide private wealth investors with access to a full suite of investment strategies, including secondaries.

Brookfield and Sequoia-backed Pinegrove shares strategy details

The venture secondaries firm plans to use equity investments and structured financings, and will deploy capital via GP- and LP-facing transactions.

Manulife: Search for alpha in secondaries market sparks LP interest

Manulife Investment Management’s GP-led secondaries programme will seek out concentrated deals from the large-cap space through to the lower mid-market.

Whitehorse rebrands to Dawson following London office launch

Dawson believes it can differentiate itself in a rapidly growing secondaries market by using scale, founder and managing partner Yann Robard tells Secondaries Investor.

AXA IM and W Capital Partners tie up in latest secondaries consolidation play

AXA Investment Managers joins a growing list of players buying up secondaries shops as it plans to tap GP-led and direct secondaries opportunities in North America.

Asian fundraising platform Alta mulls secondaries fund launch

The Singapore-based fundraising platform is seeking to co-launch a secondaries fund alongside experienced GPs that will target individual investors.

Commonfund launches Environmental Solutions Fund 2 – with secondaries sleeve

CFES 2 is a multi-strategy impact fund, NPM has learned – the latest in a handful of climate and impact funds with secondaries strategies.

PEI Awards 2023: TR Capital, StepStone, Lazard among APAC winners

Presenting the winners in four secondaries categories across the Asia-Pacific region last year in affiliate title Private Equity International’s annual PEI Awards.