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The global asset manager will begin investing Secondary Opportunities Fund IV this quarter, once SOF III is 100% deployed.
The capital will be invested in a portfolio of eight companies already owned by the listed firm, as it plans to ramp up its external fundraising activity.
The Apollo Global Management spinout has surpassed its $750m target in a little over a year.
Asia-based private equity market participants expect a tougher year for fundraising as well as more competition for big-ticket deals.
US private equity market participants anticipate valuations to decline and deal flow to accelerate in the next 12 months, with a horizon set for possible regulatory and policy changes.
The growth and mid-market buyout arm of TPG has partnered with U2 singer Bono and 11 other investors to focus on seven sectors for impact investing for ‘The Rise Fund’.
This is the firm's first investment in iCapital, which has previously received funding from Panorama Point Partners and Pivot Investment Partners among others. 
Fundraising figures for 2016 are already higher than the previous year, and include three funds closing above the $10bn mark.
The European firm’s latest fund, Apax IX, is about 20% larger than its previous fund that closed in 2013.
Thoma Bravo just closed Fund XII on $7.6bn, twice the size of its predecessor. Managing partner Orlando Bravo talks about how the firm evolved from a generalist private equity shop to a software specialist, and his own role in that transformation.
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