While lenders and buyers have both grown more accepting of leverage use in continuation funds, divisions remain over when and how these tools should be used.
2 min read · 23 July 2026
Secondaries buyers are increasingly asking advisers to source fund financing for CVs to optimise returns, according to a speaker at the European Fund Finance Symposium.
2 min read · 01 July 2026
Temasek launched its first collateralised fund obligation in 2006. Two decades on, the technology continues to grab the interest of new and repeat institutions.
6 min read · 02 April 2026
Agency publishes criteria for NAVs backed by LP secondaries interests, with plans to rate other NAV types down the road.
3 min read · 10 September 2024
More transactions are using a delayed payment structure in a bid to bridge mismatches in pricing expectations.
3 min read · 11 July 2024
Public pensions drove the LP-led market in H1, as allocation pressures led them to sell despite worsening price dislocation, Campbell Lutyens found.
2 min read · 18 August 2022
With the launch of S3, Apollo becomes ‘much more of a one-stop relationship’ for GPs, co-president Scott Kleinman tells Secondaries Investor.
5 min read · 11 August 2022
What was an exception is now mainstream, with buyers using leverage as bridging finance and to boost returns, according to Investec.
2 min read · 28 June 2022
Claire Hedley most recently led GSAM’s ESG client strategy group in London and was responsible for the asset manager’s client facing and commercial ESG efforts across EMEA.
2 min read · 21 June 2022
From lenders’ due diligence basics to new processes resulting from increased caution among some lenders, we outline what you should expect when taking out a NAV loan.
7 min read · 08 June 2022
