
NewQuest collects $1b for Asia secondaries fund
NewQuest Capital Partners has closed its fourth secondaries fund at the revised hard cap of $1 billion, comfortably exceeding the $540 million raised in the previous vintage.
The fund launched in the first quarter of 2019 with a target of $850 million. A first close of $742.1 million came in July, according to regulatory filings, with commitments coming from the likes of New...
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