About 40% of the fund, which is tailored to the UK defined contributions pensions industry, will be invested in private markets including private equity and real estate secondaries.
3 min read · 15 June 2016
Secondaries firm Whitehorse Liquidity Partners, which has raised a sixth of the target for its debut fund, has tapped a seven-year Canadian public pension veteran as CFO.
1 min read · 15 June 2016
Average high bids were 20% down this year compared with a year earlier, according to a report by advisory firm Setter Capital.
2 min read · 14 June 2016
Tjarko Hektor, who worked on North American secondaries at Carlyle’s fund of funds until last year, has launched New 2nd Capital, focusing on GP-centred transactions.
1 min read · 14 June 2016
OM Asset Management has purchased a majority stake in the secondaries firm less than two months after former owner Religare sold its interest.
2 min read · 14 June 2016
The secondaries firm has lost at least three professionals involved in fundraising this year, including its head of capital raising and IR and its deputy investment officer.
1 min read · 13 June 2016
The industry body’s opposition to the UK leaving the European Union is in line with most private equity firms, according to new research.
3 min read · 13 June 2016
The London-headquartered firm’s ninth buyout fund received bids as high as 10% above NAV, according to data released by PEFOX.
1 min read · 13 June 2016
The secondaries firm has tapped a former AB InBev executive to help develop its secondaries operations in mainland China, Secondaries Investor has learned.
1 min read · 12 June 2016
J-curve mitigation, portfolio analysis and similar terms are some of the similarities between secondaries funds and the strategy of taking stakes in private equity managers.
3 min read · 10 June 2016
