Family offices are expected to help boost secondaries dealflow in the last months of 2010, as many seek to replace existing LP stakes with emerging market exposure.
4 min read · 20 September 2010
The London-based secondaries investor is targeting European transactions between €5m and €50m.
2 min read · 13 September 2010
The $27.4bn endowment – one of the private equity industry’s most influential LPs – will continue to be an active player on the secondaries market, concentrating on ‘best-in-class’ managers.
3 min read · 10 September 2010
The infrastructure secondaries opportunity is still at an embryonic stage but has “developed significantly” according to a report from Partners Group, the Swiss alternative assets manager. UK social infrastructure in particular is on the radar of investors.
2 min read · 08 September 2010
The listed firm, which has reported strong portfolio company growth in its interim results, looks likely to sell some ‘early secondary’ fund interests to boost liquidity.
2 min read · 27 August 2010
Former AXA Private Equity executives Daniel Benin and Barthelemy de Beaupuy have formed Committed Advisors, which also recently hired two more ex-AXA professionals.
1 min read · 23 August 2010
Harvard University is reportedly in advanced talks to sell underlying investments in around six US-focused real estate funds to China sovereign wealth fund, China Investment Corporation.
2 min read · 04 August 2010
PCG Asset Management will help the $34bn pension rebalance its portfolio, selling older investments and ramping up exposure to international, secondaries and co-investments.
1 min read · 02 August 2010
The average high bid for partnership interests across all asset classes reached almost 80% of NAV in the first half of 2010, according to data from Cogent Partners.
2 min read · 28 July 2010
The UK pension ‘lifeboat’ has hired Goldman Sachs, Pantheon, Hamilton Lane, Lexington, LGT, Partners Group and RREEF as advisors.
2 min read · 21 July 2010