The 10 largest secondaries funds in market are targeting a combined $50.05bn, roughly equivalent to the record amount raised in H1 2020.
The once niche strategy has gained traction in the face of stiff competition from banks and debt funds, data from the advisor's mid-year report show.
Buyers being cautious of imminent write-downs in H1 fuelled the lowest pricing since 2012, according to the advisor's latest mid-year report.
Private equity volumes dropped by 58.5% and real estate by 53.4%, with infrastructure showing resilience, according to Setter Capital.
A study from fund administrator Gen II Fund Services sheds light on how fund managers expected the pandemic to affect their valuations.
Just eight of the world's 50 biggest private equity firms according to the PEI 300 are involved in secondaries.
Institutions hurt by 'chronic corporate earnings disruption', such as university endowments, could come under pressure to sell on the secondaries market.
Valuations and pricing have become closely linked as buyers put less emphasis on future upside when evaluating assets, according to Elm Capital.
A snapshot of law firms' secondaries work last year by volume, deal count, strategy and more in our latest annual report.
The strategies were the only two that investors showed increased interest in, according to a report by Probitas Partners.