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Secondaries

ESG & secondaries: Finer filters
ESG & secondaries: Finer filters

Rising sustainability standards pose unique challenges for investors that prefer buying into existing portfolios. Interestingly, increasingly complex deal structures are making it easier

  • Secondaries
  • 07 October 2020
HarbourVest backs IDG renminbi fund restructuring

IDG Capital has completed a renminbi fund restructuring in which assets have been transferred from one local currency vehicle to another backed by offshore investors. It is the first secondary deal of its kind to use the Qualified Foreign Limited Partner...

  • Greater China
  • 30 September 2020
Australia's Future Fund posts negative return, sells part of PE portfolio

Future Fund has posted its first yearly negative return since the global financial crisis, amid economic chaos caused by COVID-19, and rebalanced its private equity portfolio as part of efforts to avoid “excessive risk.”

  • Australasia
  • 04 September 2020
CLSA looks to connect wealthy investors with unicorns
CLSA looks to connect wealthy investors with unicorns

CLSA, the international arm of China-based brokerage CITIC Securities, has launched a strategy to offer high net worth clients investment opportunities in late-stage private companies in Asia.

  • Southeast Asia
  • 09 July 2020
Asia secondaries: Waiting for the flood
Asia secondaries: Waiting for the flood

Secondary investors expect deal flow to rebound strongly once there is more certainty on valuations. In Asia, the opportunity will be larger and more nuanced than the post-global financial crisis frenzy

  • Secondaries
  • 17 June 2020
Fund focus: Ardian goes large

With $19 billion in dry powder, Ardian is targeting big-ticket transactions in the secondaries space. Asia is becoming an increasingly significant part

  • Fundraising
  • 09 June 2020
Ardian raises $19b for global secondaries fund

Ardian has closed its eighth global secondaries fund with $19 billion in commitments, representing the largest-ever vehicle raised for the strategy. The total includes $5 billion for co-investment.

  • Secondaries
  • 03 June 2020
Coronavirus & secondaries: Niche dilemmas

Anecdotal feedback from secondaries professionals reveals a quick onset of stagnation in the market due to COVID-19. Creative workarounds are not impossible, but almost

  • Secondaries
  • 26 March 2020
Ex-CPE Capital executive Shane Gong joins Evercore

Shane Gong, who previously led the Singapore office at Australia's CHAMP Private Equity, now CPE Capital, has been recruited by Evercore to head up its PE secondaries business in Asia.

  • Southeast Asia
  • 20 March 2020
Hamilton Lane backs Legend Capital fund restructuring

Hamilton Lane has led a $200 million restructuring of a VC fund managed by China-based Legend Capital, transferring 12 investments into a new vehicle as a means of extending the holding period.

  • Greater China
  • 13 February 2020
Australia's Blackbird completes Fund I strip sale

Australia’s Blackbird Ventures has completed a GP-led secondary transaction whereby StepStone Global and HESTA have acquired interests from its debut fund for approximately A$100 million ($69 million).

  • Australasia
  • 17 December 2019
LPs and secondaries: Subliminal stimulation
LPs and secondaries: Subliminal stimulation

Global economic and political themes are exerting an almost invisible undertow on LP participation in the secondaries market. The boom in Asia will be touched but not redirected

  • LPs
  • 04 December 2019
HQ hires AB Value's Kitamura for Japan coverage
HQ hires AB Value's Kitamura for Japan coverage

Motoya Kitamura, previously managing partner of Japanese secondaries investor AB Value Capital Partners, has joined HQ Capital as a managing director.

  • People
  • 05 November 2019
Australia: VC in vogue

A handful of Australian superannuation funds have started investing directly in local start-ups as well as backing VC funds. Is buying a strip off one of these portfolios the next step?

  • Australasia
  • 04 November 2019
Manulife secondaries business to target Asia

Manulife Investment Management will target Asia with a newly launched private markets secondary business.

  • LPs
  • 29 October 2019
Deal focus: Avataar seeds India SaaS portfolio

Having won support from HarbourVest Partners to spin out a portfolio from his former employer, Norwest Venture Partners, Mohan Kumar is taking aim at India's underdeveloped enterprise software space

  • South Asia
  • 09 October 2019
Q&A: Pomona Capital's Michael Granoff

Michael Granoff, founder and CEO of Pomona Capital, discusses raising capital from Asian LPs, how GPs can be differentiated in a crowded secondaries market, and why he’s not keen on fund restructurings

  • North America
  • 20 September 2019
China secondaries: Curious conversions

An exit lag and difficulties raising money for renminbi funds in China has created a novel opening for secondaries investors comfortable moving assets from one currency to another

  • Greater China
  • 11 September 2019
CPPIB confirms $115m investment in India's Delhivery

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) has confirmed it has invested $115 million in Indian e-commerce logistics services provider Delhivery.

  • South Asia
  • 10 September 2019
CPPIB cleared to invest in India's Delhivery

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) has been cleared to acquire a stake of up to 8% in Indian e-commerce logistics service provider Delhivery.

  • South Asia
  • 21 August 2019
Lazard's Nick Miles take on Asia-Europe role

Nick Miles, leader of the Asia private capital advisory team at Lazard, has taken on a newly created role intended to enhance collaboration between the firm’s operations in Asia and Europe.

  • Fundraising
  • 09 August 2019
Temasek-backed PE bonds attract record retail following

A growing number of Singaporean retail investors are seeking PE exposure under a program overseen by Temasek Holdings. Nearly 31,000 applications representing S$820 million ($602 million) were submitted for the S$180 million worth of bonds – backed by...

  • Southeast Asia
  • 20 June 2019
LPs worry about alignment issues in GP-led secondaries - survey

The arrival of GP-led secondary transactions in the private equity mainstream has been accompanied by mounting concerns among LPs that their interests might not be aligned with those of the managers driving these deals.

  • Secondaries
  • 04 June 2019
Temasek-owned Azalea targets $600m from PE-backed bonds

Temasek Holdings-owned Azalea Asset Management is once again offering Singapore retail investors the opportunity to participate in private equity with plans to raise around $600 million through the sale of bonds backed by LP interests in funds.

  • Southeast Asia
  • 23 May 2019
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