Chelsea Stevenson
London-based Coller Capital is expected to have deployed about 75% of its $5.5bn Fund VI by mid-2014.
The Carlyle-owned real estate firm has a diversified portfolio of primary and secondary fund interests.
A direct secondaries firm must evaluate ESG just like a primary GP, explains Verdane's investor relations director Frida Einarson.
Acquiring fund stakes or asset portfolios secondhand can make it challenging to impact ESG – can secondaries firms do more?
BC 's Fund VIII closed on €5.8bn in 2005 and recently sold cleaning product and insect control company Spotless Group for €940m.
Blackstone's secondaries group aims to raise at least $3.5bn for its latest fund, investments from which already include stakes in 3i and Ares funds.
The investment consulting and advisory firm will focus on opportunities with institutional funds in the Pacific Northwest and Mountain West regions of the US.
ARCIS is targeting €350m for its European Secondary Development Fund V which will invest on the European private equity secondaries market.
Charterhouse's CCP Fund IX raised €4bn in 2008 and invested in UK-based greeting card retailer Card Factory, which floated on the London Stock Exchange earlier this year.
The alternative assets-dedicated law firm is ready to open its Hong Kong office, outfitted with two partners and one associate.