Rapid market growth and increased regulatory oversight could cause litigation in the private equity industry to rise in the next few years, according to research from consulting firm McGladrey.
Roughly 67 percent of limited partners plan to use the secondaries market to buy or sell assets in the next few years, according to Coller Capital.
Up to 45 percent of institutional investors are expected to boost their private equity holdings in the first half of 2014.
As more money is put to work on the secondaries market, discounts have narrowed, according to research from placement and advisory firm Triago.
Liquidity needs aren't motivating today's secondaries market sellers, investors told Coller Capital.
Investor returns are being hurt by hidden costs that can be larger than the visible costs in actively managed funds, according to a new paper.
The growing amount of cash stockpiled by fund managers is driving private equity secondaries activity to new highs, according to Triago’s latest research.
The French private equity firm Committed Advisors looked to raise the most from investors in the first quarter of 2014, data from PEI Research & Analytics shows.
Private equity secondary funds in the Asia-Pacific region looked to raise $1.1 billion in the first quarter of 2014.
Secondaries funds have raised a total of $106.2bn since 2008, according to data from PEI Research & Analytics.