Madeleine Farman
Madeleine Farman is the editor of PEI Group’s Secondaries Investor title based in London. Prior to joining PEI, she had covered private equity, private capital and advisers associated with the industry for other newsrooms and publications since 2016. Originally from New Zealand, Madeleine began her career in radio in Auckland.
There’s reasons on all sides to settle on market practice when it comes to continuation vehicle guidance – lest regulators decide it for you.
The industry body's prior guidance was 'silent on a lot of things’, chief executive Jennifer Choi tells Secondaries Investor.
Some LPs have expressed scepticism around the return potential of LP-led secondaries, while interest in CVs is heating up.
The world may be reeling from geopolitical shock after geopolitical shock, but this uncertainty is only fuelling record-breaking secondaries activity.
Some LPs are finding themselves as forced sellers in CVs because of the length of time given in election periods.
The software giant will run off its Growth Fund and will not raise another vehicle for the strategy, with the two co-heads of its growth business having left the firm, PEI has learned.
The structured specialist has closed Dawson GP Finance 2 on its hard-cap as interest in GP ecosystem investing increases.
More creativity in the impact secondaries market could help boost commitments from liquidity-constrained LPs and allow for longer investment runways.
Secondaries professionals share their insights into what they believe will continue to drive market activity in the New Year.
Groupe Bruxelles Lambert is divesting €1.7bn in NAV and its GBL Capital unit will no longer make new fund commitments.