Rod James
Rod James is a reporter with Secondaries Investor and also contributes to sister title PrivateEquityInternational.com. He is based in the London office. Prior to PEI, his roles included a stint as a freelancer covering fintech and transaction banking, CEEMEA capital markets reporter with EMEA Finance magazine, and editor of the Latin American political and economic risk team at IHS Global Insight.
Capital raising for secondaries vehicles exceeded the $19.74bn raised in the first three months of 2016, the previous high.
The co-head of the $53bn investment manager's secondaries team discusses its $2.1bn fundraise and how it plans to navigate the coronavirus crisis.
The limited partner body’s guidance on GP-led fund restructurings is designed to create an industry standard for the execution of these deals. How effective has it been in practice?
While the covid-19 story has a long way to run, several important themes have started to emerge.
The direct secondaries specialist is in talks with the European Investment Fund, Secondaries Investor understands.
The investment manager has raised nearly double what it was targeting for its fourth secondaries fund.
The Boston-based asset manager is in market with flagship secondaries fund Dover Street X.
BlackRock Secondaries & Liquidity Solutions is understood to count SWFs and pensions among its anchor investors.
An overhang of LPs wanting to sell stakes in funds could delay transfers in order to conform with publicly traded partnership rules.
GP-led processes were used to isolate top performing assets during the bull market, so why not the opposite now?