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Blackstone predicts 20% YoY growth in infra secondaries for 2025

The firm this week said it had raised $5.5bn for the market’s largest infra secondaries fund.

Macquarie raises more than $700m for debut infra secondaries fund

The fund is slightly skewed towards LP-led deals and looks for opportunistic investments in the GP-led market, head of infrastructure secondaries, Wandy Hoh, tells Secondaries Investor.

Partners Group reaps buyout-like returns from infra portfolio

The firm’s infrastructure partnership investments unit has generated $1.5bn for investors in the first half of this year.

Infra LP-leds rule by volume, but GP-leds are sizeable

In this special episode from our affiliate The Infrastructure Investor Podcast, we discuss the evolution of infra secondaries, its best-in-class pricing, the outsized role of continuation funds, new buyer-led technology and more.

Roundtable: Infra secondaries – a buyer’s market

Infrastructure secondaries are enjoying a surge in dealflow and limited competition thanks to significant barriers to entry, seven specialists tell affiliate title Infrastructure Investor.

BlackRock hits $1.1bn first close on fifth infra solutions fund

Global Infrastructure Solutions is targeting $2.5bn and for the first time has a dedicated secondaries sleeve.

Partners Group to build ‘local clusters of scale’ with Bluesea Hotels M&A

The private markets firm backed a GP-led process involving Spain’s Bluesea, a hospitality platform.

Stafford eyes next year close for fifth and potentially largest infra secondaries fund

Stafford Infrastructure Secondaries Fund V has raised about one-third of its €1.3bn target.

AXA on the tailwinds and headwinds affecting infrastructure secondaries

Infrastructure secondaries will benefit from the same drivers of turnover as the private equity market, write AXA IM Prime’s Jean-Pascal Asseman and Faraz Qureshi.

Massachusetts pension seeks manager for real estate debt secondaries

Credit and real estate secondaries could see $7bn and $11bn of deal volume each this year, per advisory reports.