The Zanbato Group is beta-testing a website that matches buyers and sellers of infrastructure assets and fund interests. Zanbato was founded last year by Stanford Professor Ryan Orr and is backed by Macquarie veteran Murray Bleach.
4 min read · 27 May 2011
In an exclusive interview with Andy Thomson, former Babcock & Brown global infrastructure head Peter Hofbauer discusses his new role at the helm of Hermes GPE’s infrastructure operation and his interest in secondaries.
3 min read · 05 May 2011
John Breen, head of funds and secondaries at CPPIB, also serves as vice chair at ILPA. It’s unclear whether he will leave ILPA, which would be a ‘huge loss’, says ILPA executive director Kathy Jeramaz-Larson.
1 min read · 26 April 2011
Paul Capital, HarbourVest, LGT and Axiom have committed around $400m to NewQuest Asia, the spin-out of Bank of America Merrill Lynch Private Equity Asia.
2 min read · 18 April 2011
Alpha Associates is raising its debut fund targeting $100m to $150m for mature fund interests in Russia and former Soviet Union countries, says managing partner Petra Salesny.
1 min read · 13 April 2011
Landmark Partners’ chief executive officer, Francisco Borges, says at $718m, Landmark Real Estate Fund VI is the largest single-pooled real estate secondary fund ever raised, while the market is still in the ‘early innings’ of the cycle.
2 min read · 05 April 2011
Abu Dhabi Capital Management is targeting $100m for its first-ever secondaries fund that will focus on investments mainly in the Middle East and North Africa.
1 min read · 29 March 2011
The US pension may, if the price is right, sell up to $1bn-worth of private equity holdings on the secondaries market.
3 min read · 25 March 2011
The asset class is seeing funds come to market with dedicated allocations to secondaries, such as funds-of-funds recently closed by Partners Group and Pantheon. A €500m block of infrastructure fund interests currently up for sale also indicates dealflow is picking up sharply.
3 min read · 11 March 2011
Blackstone spin-out Millennium is building its team in anticipation of what it believes will be a record-breaking year for secondary venture capital investments.
2 min read · 03 March 2011
