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Mandate activity among the largest institutional investors soared in 2021 across private equity, private credit, real estate and infrastructure, and hedge funds, according to research commissioned by Vidrio Financial, a provider of software and integrated data services solutions for institutional alternative allocators globally.
The second annual Alternatives Watch Research Investor Compendium tracked in 2021 a total of $130bn in new capital across more than 900 individual Institutional investor mandates of 50 of the top allocators to alternatives.
The report ranks the activity of some of the largest pension plan allocators by alternative asset class and provides a snapshot of some
Law firm Paul Hastings has launched the inaugural Continuation Vehicles Snapshot from its Secondaries team.
The Snapshot outlines the key terms of the continuation vehicles (CVs) that Paul Hastings advised on between Q4 2021 and Q1 2022, offering a useful insight into the provisions found in CVs’ legal documentation. The CVs span a variety of sectors, ranging from healthcare to media. The average size of each was $700m, while total commitments exceed $5bn, and approximately 70% of the CVs related to single-asset deals.
Notably, almost a third (29%) of deals involved sponsors providing 10% of the investor commitment to
Secondary assets being brought to market this year will require industrial strength and value creation potential, as infrastructure, VC and mid-market GPs plan to bring opportunities to market…
In stark contrast to private equity’s buyout market over the past decade, GP-led secondaries are often characterised by too many deals chasing too little capital.
“Sometimes we feel capital-constrained because there’s so much opportunity out there,” says Valérie Handal, managing director of the global secondaries team at HarbourVest.
With the eight largest secondary funds controlling around 50% of the dry powder in the market, according to Hamilton Lane, GPs are having to
Since the pandemic, GPs have been holding onto their trophy assets for longer. A jump in single-asset continuation vehicles is opening up buy-side opportunities for funds and investors…
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