Secondaries

The financial services-focused firm, which hired Brookfield’s former co-head of sponsor solutions Mark McDonald earlier this year, sees opportunity in its historic area of focus: the European mid-market.

Secondaries funds raised nearly $39bn in the first quarter of 2026, Secondaries Investor data shows.

The programme is over 60% committed, with the PE secondaries unit having invested more than $4bn globally last year, Secondaries Investor has learned.

A growing number of LPs in South Korea see secondaries as an opportunity to invest in credit at a low price with downside protection.

Yonatan Puterman will head Coller’s equity division with its co-head of investments François Aguerre stepping into a senior adviser role, Secondaries Investor has learned.

If the deal goes ahead, the CV is anticipated to be in the region of €2bn to €2.5bn, Secondaries Investor understands.

Critics argue CVs entrench managers or delay inevitable exits. However, structured with transparency and fairness, these funds align interests rather than obscure them, writes AEA Investors’ and Painswick Capital’s John Garcia.

Such opportunities ‘can provide us with some downside protection against the macro flows rather than going with the flow as part of the herd’, says head and OCIO Seong Sup Cho.

Tech-focused Nordics investor Alder has moved two assets into an Article 9 continuation vehicle.

Arcmont sees ‘an enormous benefit’ to the burgeoning credit secondaries market and is open to dealing with its traditional private debt competitors in the future, CEO Anthony Fobel tells Secondaries Investor.