Second Thoughts Podcast

In this podcast, CVC's Carlo Pirzio-Biroli and Kirkland's Ted Cardos literally peel back the onion on the year that was and look forward to what they believe will shape the secondaries market in 2025.

Hollyport's John Carter and Elm Capital's Etienne Deshormes delve into why the opportunity in the tail-end secondaries market has grown, yet the number of buyers remains concentrated.

As private markets AUM continues to grow at a clip, so too does the number of legacy funds held onto by institutions. Hollyport's John Carter and Elm Capital's Etienne Deshormes join Madeleine Farman in the latest edition of Second Thoughts.

In the latest episode of Second Thoughts, three young achievers who made our annual list of the most impressive secondaries professionals under 36 discuss talent trends in the industry.

Retaining talent and maintaining the industry's culture will be one of the secondaries market's biggest long-term challenges.

In this podcast episode, Second Thoughts host Madeleine Farman and Americas correspondent Hannah Zhang talk through the spaces to watch in secondaries as end-of-year activity surges.

In part two of the Second Thoughts podcast conversation with professionals from AlpInvest, PJT Partners and Stephenson Harwood, we discuss what factors, dynamics and personality traits of those involved help make for stellar transactions.

For the latest episode of Secondaries Investor's Second Thoughts podcast, we sit down with AlpInvest, PJT Partners and Stephenson Harwood to get to the bottom of the controversy surrounding this designation.

In our latest Second Thoughts podcast, we speak with Ingmar Vallano, managing partner of Clipway, about the benefits of putting generative AI at the heart of its investment process, as well as the benefits generative AI could bring to private markets.