Managing director Tony Cusano was listed in Secondaries Investor’s 2017 Young Guns of Secondaries ranking of the most impressive professionals in the industry under 36.
2 min read · 29 March 2019
The firm entered the real estate secondaries market in 2017, bringing in Deutsche Bank’s Scott Koenig to lead the build-out.
2 min read · 28 March 2019
San Francisco-based Melting Point Solutions seeks to maximise pricing for sellers by seeking bids for single items as well as whole portfolios. Raphael Haas, the firm’s chief executive, talks to Secondaries Investor about why multi-buyer sales can deliver better pricing for sellers and why non-dedicated buyers can provide outlier pricing.
4 min read · 27 March 2019
The $3.5bn ACOF III fund is understood to have nine assets remaining, including the US luxury department store.
2 min read · 26 March 2019
The firm founded by former AlpInvest Partners exec Tjarko Hektor has beat the $250m target of its fund that will focus on the US small- and mid-market.
1 min read · 25 March 2019
The $31bn Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds will also consider sales of interests in funds managed by discontinued GPs.
2 min read · 15 March 2019
Large North American public pension plans may be fuelling one part of the secondaries market, while pouring cold water on another.
2 min read · 14 March 2019
Jonathan Goldberg joins from the leveraged finance team at RBC Capital Markets, making him the third senior appointment made by 17Capital in nine months.
1 min read · 13 March 2019
The LP has restructured its private equity portfolio, increasing its commitment capacity to the strategy and to emerging managers, and it can now sell interests on the secondaries market.
3 min read · 13 March 2019