News & Analysis

QIC targets shorter plays amid PE’s liquidity crunch

Co-investments and single-asset CVs offer investors ‘greater control’, partner Zach Jackson says.

CIP bolsters its liquidity capabilities, hiring head of capital solutions

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.

Secondaries’ emerging leaders: GP-leds to become a proactive portfolio management tool

The GP-led market will become ‘indistinguishable’ from the sponsor-to-sponsor market over the next five years as PE firms seek to gain access to companies via CVs, one 2026 Next Gen Leader says.

CV pricing strengthens amid growing buyer competition

New market entrants are seeking to pre-empt auction processes to ‘differentiate themselves’, according to Lazard’s Kevan Comstock.

Korean LPs embrace PE secondaries, mid-market amid credit controversy

Some institutions are expected to lean into equity-based strategies as they seek a new home for 2026 credit allocations.

Behind the $400m CFO formed by Churchill and Temasek’s Seviora

Churchill, whose parent Nuveen Private Capital received backing from Temasek last year, and the Singaporean investor’s asset management platform Seviora formed the vehicle with collateral spanning PE and private credit, including PE secondaries.

ICG backs Onex’s Ryan again in CV-on-CV process

The process comes three years after Onex first moved the tax services provider into a single-asset continuation fund.

UBS taps DC Advisory for director hire in latest boost to EMEA advisory

The director reunites with Michael Wieczorek, who joined UBS to head its EMEA secondaries advisory unit late last year from DC Advisory.

Ardian’s Mark Benedetti: Infra secondaries a mispricing bright spot within private markets

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.

Hollyport backs Viking Growth’s €160m CV for Talentech

Recruitment software platform Talentech has already been the subject of a CV, having been moved into a multi-asset vehicle by joint owner Verdane earlier this year.