Secondaries

The appointment is the firm’s second this year and brings its total staff to seven.

The market is evolving rapidly, becoming deeper, more granular and more complex. Six roundtable participants tell us what form it is taking.

The new platform will sit within the firm’s secondaries unit, Strategic Partners, and work with existing impact managers across all asset classes.

CPPIB, ICG and Kirkland & Ellis are among the firm’s represented on PEI’s list of the 40 future leaders of private equity.

More mega-deals, the pros of a market downturn and how participants are dealing with limited resources – just some of the topics discussed at sister publication Private Equity International’s recent roundtable.

As the firm seeks $2bn for its latest flagship fund, we look at the performance of Pantheon’s secondaries vehicles so far.

The pension’s advisor Cliffwater has recommended the pension offload older stakes and exploit the lack of competition at the small end of the market by purchasing individual fund positions.

GP-led strip sales, a steep reduction in the use of deferrals and a big swing in market sentiment were among the defining characteristics of 2018, according to a report by the secondaries advisor.

The investment firm has offloaded a portfolio of stakes from its 2010-vintage secondaries fund, having sold at least $1.5bn to the Blackstone unit since 2017.

The world’s largest asset manager has added a director and an associate to its growing secondaries team.