On my travels around London this week I heard a fun secondaries market analogy...
Secondaries buyers are casting a wider net to fish for credit, intellectual property, healthcare royalties, and other sorts of illiquid assets, says Rodney Reid, head of UBS' secondaries activity for EMENA.
Market participants have been buzzing about a Hellman & Friedman stake sold at a 30% premium to NAV – but does it actually provide a snapshot of overall market activity?
From a supply-side perspective, secondary market dynamics have never been so attractive, writes Landmark partner Ian Charles.
Welcome to the site with one thing on its mind: secondaries.
Rockwood managing partner Andrew Dewar details how Absa Capital gained its independence from Barclays Africa.
Private equity chief Réal Desrochers gives us the inside scoop on what and why CalPERS wants to buy on the secondaries market.
The majority of infrastructure investors still lack the internal resources and size to act as pure direct players, writes Partners Group’s Michael Barben.
US and European pension funds were the most active sellers as secondary private equity real estate secondary deals rocket from $2.6bn in 2012 to $3.7bn last year
More than 14% of all secondaries deals last year were real estate purchases, according to Toronto-based advisory firm Setter Capital.