Secondaries specialist Coller Capital was the largest investor in the listed fund of funds’ recent rights issue, having picked up 50 million shares. The investment was made from Coller’s fifth fund, which is around 55% deployed; the firm is expected to raise up to $6bn for Fund VI later this year.
2 min read · 13 February 2009
Pantheon International Participations has seen its net asset value grow by more than 20 percent in the last year. Current market conditions are causing the fund to shift focus nearly exclusively to the booming secondaries market.
1 min read · 26 September 2008
The private equity secondaries firm has hired a chief of its Hong Kong office which opened in August 2007.
1 min read · 10 June 2008
The private equity real estate firm hires former DTZ executive to capitalize on the growing secondaries and fund of funds market in Europe.
1 min read · 05 June 2008
The Swiss alternative asset manager‘s executive chairman Alfred Gantner said ‘the time is back when you’ve got to invest’.
2 min read · 10 March 2008
The alternative investment arm of banking giant Morgan Stanley has appointed Christophe Nicolas to help it to take advantage of the increase in secondary transactions in the private equity market.
1 min read · 13 January 2008