Managers

How will emerging managers fare in a consolidating market?

Competition for capital is fierce, but new firm formation is poised to continue nonetheless.

Partners Group on track for record secondaries deployment

The firm’s deployment so far this year is already 25% higher than its full year total for 2024.

Blackstone reiterates expectations for ‘first major close’ on PE flagship in Q4

Strategic Partners Fund X is seeking $22.5bn, documents prepared for a US pension’s meeting this week show.

Ex-Blackstone exec’s firm makes K1 single-asset CV its debut transaction

SQ Capital was the lead buyer of the $160m CV for portfolio company TeamDynamix, understood to have been run in an off-market deal with no bankers involved.

Why a partnership with insurer RGA is ‘strategic and accretive’ for FoxPath

Reinsurance Group of America’s investment in credit secondaries specialist FoxPath Capital Partners will broaden its access to private assets.

Blackstone predicts 20% YoY growth in infra secondaries for 2025

The firm this week said it had raised $5.5bn for the market’s largest infra secondaries fund.

How to build a secondaries business

Over the past five years, some private equity shops have shunned their illiquid mentality to launch their own secondaries businesses. Can they give the market’s mega-managers a run for their money?

Leonard Green’s debut GP-led fund tops target, as secondaries investing surges

The buyout firm launched Sage Equity Investors last year with a $1.5bn target.

Arctos approaches final close on debut GP financing fund

The firm’s Keystone strategy provides bespoke offerings to alternatives managers at the management company, fund and asset level.

Dawson raises more than $8bn for sixth flagship

Dawson Portfolio Finance 6 has beaten its target as the firm continues to deepen relationships with US-based LPs.