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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.
The veteran will continue as head of direct funds as four executives take up their places on the committee.
The $48bn pension fund has proposed giving its CIO freedom to sell up to $500m in fund stakes per year without needing board approval.
Private equity and real estate secondaries funds raised more than a combined $38bn last year, driven by Strategic Partners and Goldman Sachs Asset Management vehicles.
The deal, which involves three of the Peruvian private equity firm's existing funds, is understood to be the largest GP-led transaction to come out of Latin America.
The CEE-focused firm's Fund V is seeking the same amount it raised for its 2014-vintage predecessor, PEI has learned.
Strategic buyers are starting to lose out to private equity firms which are leveraging tech advantages in their portfolios, according to a Silicon Valley-based partner at Hogan Lovells.
Daniel Green, who was also CIO at Greenpark Capital, has joined the firm as EMEA head of private equity secondaries.
The listed private equity fund sold the $218m portfolio after a majority of shareholders said they no longer wanted to invest.
European PE & VC and secondaries were the standout performers in ILPA's quarterly analysis of net internal rates of return.
A handful of big-name deals pushed GP-led processes into the mainstream in 2017, but questions around their planning and execution will dominate discourse going into 2018.
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