Rod James
Rod James is a reporter with Secondaries Investor and also contributes to sister title PrivateEquityInternational.com. He is based in the London office. Prior to PEI, his roles included a stint as a freelancer covering fintech and transaction banking, CEEMEA capital markets reporter with EMEA Finance magazine, and editor of the Latin American political and economic risk team at IHS Global Insight.
UK pensions descended on Edinburgh for the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association conference, but few rated the asset class as attractive.
Making the business case for spinning out is often easy; the potential pitfalls come from the details of doing it.
SWAN III, which is already 50% deployed across 20 deals, can make primary, secondaries and co-investments.
A survey carried out by 17Capital suggests most LPs do not feel their liquidity needs are met by the secondaries market.
The founder of Turkven, Seymur Tari, on the role of sovereign wealth funds and why regulatory fears around Turkey are unfounded.
The fund of funds market has been under pressure in recent years, so differentiation is the key.
Kanji Takenaka will be charged with building a business which accounts for more than 12 blue-chip Japanese investors worth $2bn in AUM.
The German private equity firm's latest buyout fund has allocations towards primaries, secondaries and co-investments.
The return of Mid Europa suggests another strong year for CEE fundraising, but the market remains too diverse to draw broad conclusions.
Marc Wursdorfer spent 15 years at Credit Suisse where he was responsible for primary capital raising in the Nordic region and sourcing secondaries deals.