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Alaska Permanent Fund’s deputy CIO for private markets, Allen Waldrop, explains why the SWF has been a buyer in the CV market and has not been a seller even when it has been overallocated to PE.

The firm’s predecessor vehicle closed on $2.9bn in June 2021, Secondaries Investor data shows.

The education and experience of new sellers will help grow the LP side of the industry, according to Vlad Colas, executive vice president of Ardian, who spoke with Buyouts at PEI Group’s NEXUS 2025 event in Orlando in early March.

This is Moelis’s second hire from Jefferies this year – it has already employed Matthew Wesley to head up its private funds advisory capabilities.

In this 10-minute video, the founders of Coller Capital and Dawson Partners discuss their predictions for annual deal volume by 2030 and how LP-GP alignment could be affected.

Four out of NYCRS’ five pension systems are selling a more than $5.5bn portfolio to Blackstone Strategic Partners in a deal set to close at the end of March.

LPs and GPs alike are finding secondaries technology ‘extremely beneficial’, Holcombe Green said at PEI Group’s NEXUS 2025 conference in Orlando this week.

The risk mitigation benefit ‘is an overlooked facet of what is attractive on some of these continuation vehicles’, head of investment strategy Drew Schardt tells Secondaries Investor.

The move comes two years after the launch of Dawson’s first overseas office in London.

The biggest names in the secondaries market will gather in Florida at PEI Group’s NEXUS 2025 conference next week to map out the key trends that will shape the market in the year ahead.