Manager strategy

SQ Capital, founded by Mustafa Siddiqui, will focus on mid-market secondaries opportunities.

There have been cases when continuation funds have been 'misused and overused', according to Teia Merring, senior investment director at USS and chair of ILPA.

Quilvest Secondaries Fund will primarily target GP-led transactions, though it will include a pocket for shorter duration opportunities, affiliate title Secondaries Investor understands.

Private equity firms made a raft of strategic hires in 2024 amid rising excitement about the lucrative Asia-Pacific wealth opportunity.

Amy Jupe, head of private equity primaries for the firm’s External Investing Group, talks about the implications of longer fundraises and why LPs are delaying commitments to GPs.

A lack of liquidity is creating new opportunities to partner with mid-market managers and their portfolio companies, says head of Northleaf Capital Partners’ private equity programme, Michael Flood.

If private equity fundraising rebounds next year, as is widely expected, how can first-time GPs give themselves the best chance of success?