The top 100 alternative investment managers now have over $3.3tr in assets under management, according Towers Watson.
2 min read · 20 July 2014
Acquiring fund stakes or asset portfolios secondhand can make it challenging to impact ESG – can secondaries firms do more?
2 min read · 18 July 2014
Blackstone’s secondaries group aims to raise at least $3.5bn for its latest fund, investments from which already include stakes in 3i and Ares funds.
2 min read · 17 July 2014
The investment consulting and advisory firm will focus on opportunities with institutional funds in the Pacific Northwest and Mountain West regions of the US.
2 min read · 16 July 2014
Secondaries transaction volume reached $17bn for the first half of the year, making the market very seller-favourable, according to Cogent Partners managing director Todd Miller.
1 min read · 16 July 2014
Seventeen-year Adams Street veteran Hanneke Smits, who chairs the firm’s secondary and primary investment committees, plans to leave her position at the end of 2014.
1 min read · 16 July 2014
Charterhouse’s CCP Fund IX raised €4bn in 2008 and invested in UK-based greeting card retailer Card Factory, which floated on the London Stock Exchange earlier this year.
3 min read · 15 July 2014
PineBridge Secondary Partners III has raised about $60m toward its $500m target, in the past year.
1 min read · 14 July 2014
The market for small- and medium-sized transactions is picking up, writes Lars Lindqvist, founder and chief executive of broker Cattegatt.
3 min read · 14 July 2014
FACTA has gone into effect and the AIFMD compliance deadline is right around the corner – all of which secondaries firms must be alive to.
2 min read · 13 July 2014