News & Analysis

Volatility, new entrants and increased specialisation elevated the secondaries market to new heights in 2025.

Bridgepoint, which owns PEI Group, has been eyeing the ‘best route into secondaries’ for the past year, group chief executive Raoul Hughes says in a statement.

Two buyers have lined up on the deal run by HarbourVest’s publicly listed investment trust, which is generating net proceeds of $300m from the sale, Secondaries Investor has learned.

Semi-liquid strategies can provide benefits to LPs, but they aren’t a one-size-fits-all solution.

Former Blackstone dealmaker Mustafa Siddiqui’s firm, which launched in January, completed its first CV with K1 Investment Management and has since made three further investments, Secondaries Investor understands.

The secondaries giant is the latest player to set up a formal strategy targeting the asset class, Secondaries Investor understands.

Secondaries has become a popular portfolio management tool for large US endowments like Yale and Harvard.

New opportunities are arising for LPs, but there are ongoing pain points to address.

The firm’s Abu Dhabi office will be led by managing director Doug Bourne, who joined from Schroders earlier this year.

The deal gives NORD Holding’s All Inclusive Fitness an enterprise value of over €500m, according to a statement seen by Secondaries Investor.