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Private equity & secondaries

Buyout, growth and secondaries managers on deals, exits, continuation vehicles and what reaches the wealth channel. Selected by our editors.

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What is Private Equity? By iCapital

It is positioned as a plain-language primer on private equity mechanics and fund categories, which may be useful as a client-facing or staff-training reference for firms introducing the asset class. The scope is definitional rather than analytical.

iCapitalVideo8 min

Why Allocate to Alts? By iCapital

It is short-form educational content from a platform provider, useful as a plain-language explainer to share with clients or staff who are new to alternatives. Advisors should note the source is an alternatives platform, so the framing reflects that vantage point.

iCapitalVideo7 min

Why Generali Partnered Rather Than Built in Secondaries | Marco Busca | New York Forum

It offers a manager's account of how an insurance-backed asset owner structures a secondaries programme, including the build-versus-partner decision and the underwriting layers involved. The comments on where competition is concentrated in plain vanilla deals, and on structuring demands in more complex transactions, speak to how private credit secondaries capacity is being allocated.

PEI MediaVideo5 min

"Stalled PE Funds Are the Conglomerates of Our Age" | Sanford Rich, NYC BERS

It is a rare on-the-record account of how a large, well-funded pension is thinking about cashflow-driven allocation and the illiquidity premium, framed around concrete manager-selection questions rather than generalities. The discussion of stalled PE funds and credit versus equity in the same company is useful framing for anyone discussing private-markets liquidity with clients.

PEI MediaVideo22 min
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