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The vehicle will invest in a variety of strategies, including secondaries.

By appealing to retail and large institutional investors, mega-managers may end up with the lion’s share of capital, with implications for themselves and their investors, writes Cambridge Associates’ Andrea Auerbach.

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

Private markets M&A continues to gather pace as asset management mega-platforms attempt to meet all their investors’ needs.

The top force fuelling M&A among private markets managers is the ambition to become as relevant to private wealth and insurance money tomorrow as institutional capital today.

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

The oversubscribed vehicle adds to an already lucrative, record-breaking fundraising year for secondaries.

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

The small buyout specialist’s latest secondaries vehicle surpassed its $1bn target and will invest in both LP- and GP-leds.

Hans Swildens weighs in on Industry’s sale to Goldman Sachs, who the most active sellers in the venture secondaries market are, the current NAV discount for venture assets and more.