Record Year For Secondaries As Partners Fund Closes

Finishing up a record year for secondary funds generally, Partners Group closed out its latest offering, Partners Group Secondary 2011 LP, raising €2 billion ($2.6 billion). The closing puts the total amount raised by secondary funds in 2012 at more than $20 billion, which is above the previous record year of 2009, when $17 billion was raised, according to data from Thomson Reuters.

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