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For the First Time, LP-Led and GP-Led Are the Same Size Market
Campbell Lutyens' 1H 2026 Flash Report shows LP-led and GP-led activity converging to roughly 45% of volume each, down from a 54/41 split as recently as…
Jul 28
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Laura Iriarte Zabalaga
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Carlyle vs. Bain: The $7bn Secondary Buyout Auction on Wealth Enhancement Group
TA Associates and Onex have allegedly chosen a straight sale over a continuation vehicle for their $160bn RIA platform. For an asset this…
Jul 27
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No DPI "For a While": Blackstone's Quiet Gift to Secondaries
President Jon Gray told analysts that white-collar services, professional information services, and enterprise software buyouts "won't see a ton of DPI…
Jul 24
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Secondaries Just Had a Record H1. Their Capital Cushion Is Nearly Gone
Beyond the record $121 billion H1 headline from Evercore's report: dry powder fell from $215 billion to $194 billion in six months, and the capital…
Jul 22
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The $6.4 Billion Exception: How Three Ardian Veterans Broke Secondaries' "Scale Wins" Rule
Every fundraising report this year has told some version of the same story: capital in secondaries is consolidating around a handful of incumbents big…
Jul 21
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Laura Iriarte Zabalaga
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Decoding Secondary Returns Beyond Discount: Abbott's Five-Factor Framework for LP Diligence
Abbott Capital just quantified what the market has long argued informally: discount doesn't drive secondary outperformance, value appreciation does…
Jul 17
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Laura Iriarte Zabalaga
Secondaries Aren't the Symptom of PE's Slowdown, They're the Adjustment Mechanism
Ropes & Gray's midyear global private capital report frames 2026 as a market in "recalibration," not recovery.
Jul 16
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Laura Iriarte Zabalaga
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AlpInvest's Atom Splits the Difference: Inside the $7 Billion Bet on Single Companies
Carlyle AlpInvest just closed its second dedicated single-asset continuation vehicle fund at a $1.7 billion hard cap.
Jul 16
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Laura Iriarte Zabalaga
Multi-Track or Bust: Asante's Pitch for Why Every GP Needs a Secondaries Arm
Asante's Q2 Pulse argues secondaries have become non-negotiable, and a fresh Hong Kong hire suggests the firm is staffing up to match its own thesis.
Jul 14
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Laura Iriarte Zabalaga
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Acurio Closes Europe's Only Dedicated VC Fund Secondaries Vehicle.
Bilbao-based Acurio Ventures has raised €115 million to hunt the sub-€20 million fund stakes Europe's larger secondaries platforms won't touch.
Jul 13
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The $13 Trillion Case Blackstone Didn't Mean to Make
Blackstone's 2026 mid-year CIO letter is macro, not secondaries, yet it's one of the cleanest third-party validations of the "secondaries as portfolio…
Jul 8
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Laura Iriarte Zabalaga
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Schroders: Continuation Vehicles Aren't Just Growing Anymore. They're Displacing Secondary Buyouts.
For most of the last three years, continuation vehicles have been described the same way: a fast-growing addition to the private equity exit toolkit…
Jul 7
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Laura Iriarte Zabalaga
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