Funds

The process follows a larger deal the endowment secured last year, where it offloaded between $3bn-$4bn of private equity stakes with pricing in the mid-90% of NAV.

The Danish retirement scheme favours indirect over direct investment in secondaries and has made commitments to all five infra secondaries vehicles managed by Pantheon, infrastructure funds head Mikkel Kjaersgaard tells Secondaries Investor.

Senior execs have been working to spell out why secondaries mark-up practices make sense following public scepticism from peers.

The firm will lower fees during funds’ investment periods and then increase them after the period, according to head of strategy Michael McCabe.

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A replacement for global head of the PCA group, which will continue to operate as usual, has not been named, Secondaries Investor understands.

Tikehau’s second credit secondaries-focused fund closes on more than $1bn having launched in the second half of 2023.

The fund, which remains in market, has exceeded its target by more than $1bn and already marks a significant step up from its $5.8bn predecessor.

The close of MCP Opportunity Secondary Program VI follows a rejig of Montana’s senior leadership last year.

The firm’s inaugural credit secondaries closed-end fund reached $4bn with the programme totalling $7.1bn, marking it the firm’s largest inaugural fundraise, CEO Michael Arougheti says.