Real estate secondaries bids rose by 4% year on year, according to the advisory firm’s 2016 Secondary Private Equity Valuation and Trends Report.
1 min read · 26 January 2016
Good deals at a discount have been becoming harder to find in Europe for a while now, so what are GPs doing if they’re not playing the discount game?
3 min read · 22 January 2016
Buyers in Europe are turning to markets such as Ukraine and Russia to find attractive discounts on secondaries stakes, according to Christian Böhler, the secondaries principal at Akina.
2 min read · 16 December 2015
The average pricing for secondaries transactions fell but some strategies, including tail-end funds, fared better.
1 min read · 30 November 2015
Growing competition for underlying assets are the biggest challenge for primary GPs but will create future opportunities for secondaries, according to Investec’s GP Trends 2015 report.
2 min read · 09 November 2015
The acquisition was part of a large sale from insurance company Nationwide, which was rebalancing its private equity portfolio.
2 min read · 04 November 2015
While most traditional secondaries market participants scoff at electronic exchanges’ impact on their strategies, some are engaging with them on behalf of their portfolio companies.
3 min read · 30 October 2015
NEPC’s Q3 2015 poll shows that in response to high valuations and restricted access to top quartile managers, these investors are looking into co-investing.
1 min read · 22 October 2015
Secondaries buyers and sellers seek more transparency and independence in valuation reporting.
2 min read · 21 September 2015
The firm believes it exceeded the estimated industry average discount by 600 basis points.
2 min read · 21 September 2015
