Tagged: private markets

July 24, 2025 @ 4:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The venture capital landscape continues to evolve, with the direct secondaries market emerging as a critical mechanism for liquidity in an era of prolonged private company timelines. PitchBook’s Q3 2025 Analyst Note provides a comprehensive analysis of this rapidly growing segment, estimating its current size… Read More

July 24, 2025 @ 9:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Schroders Capital, a private markets business of Schroders, announces the launch of additional European Long-Term Investment Funds (ELTIFs), adding to its suite of private markets solutions for private clients. The first ELTIF is described as an evergreen fund with regular subscriptions and redemptions (Schroders Capital… Read More

July 2, 2025 @ 1:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BlackRock (NYSE: BLK) has been selected by Great Gray Trust Company, LLC to provide a custom glidepath that strategically allocates across public and private markets for Great Gray’s first target date retirement solution featuring private equity and private credit exposures. BlackRock’s index equity, index fixed… Read More

June 28, 2025 @ 11:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Defined Contribution (DC) section of Schroders Retirement Benefits Scheme (SRBS) has allocated £48m, (20% of the default growth fund), to the Schroders Capital Climate+ LTAF as it looks to provide greater diversification benefits and access to the robust returns private markets can deliver for… Read More

June 19, 2025 @ 8:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Schroders Capital, the $99.3bn private markets business of Schroders, announces today that its UK Innovation Long-Term Asset Fund (LTAF) has invested in Draig Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biopharma company aiming to transform the treatment of neuropsychiatric diseases. The UK is Europe‘s largest venture capital market and… Read More

June 16, 2025 @ 5:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Juniper Square, the provider of connected fund software and services for private markets, announced it closed its Series D round and secured $130M in new funding led by Ribbit Capital, with significant strategic investment from Fifth Wall, and additional participation from Redpoint Ventures, HighSage Ventures,… Read More

June 16, 2025 @ 8:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

In a significant achievement for the private markets industry, Partners Group, a global private markets firm, announced that its private credit evergreen fund has reached EUR 2 billion (approximately USD 2.31 billion) in size. This milestone underscores the growing investor appetite for private credit and… Read More

June 15, 2025 @ 4:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BlackRock (NYSE: BLK) has unveiled a bold strategy to significantly expand its presence in private markets, targeting $400 billion in fundraising by 2030. This plan, announced during the firm’s recent investor day, reflects BlackRock’s intent to capitalize on the growth of alternative investments, including private… Read More

June 13, 2025 @ 9:15 am By JD Alois  |  

While the IPO market appears to be waking from a long slumber with IPOs increasing by 55% versus Q1 2024, interest in private markets continues to grow. The obtuse rule upon regulation approach by policymakers for public markets has had its unintended but obvious effect… Read More

June 10, 2025 @ 4:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Coller Capital, which claims to be one of the world’s largest dedicated private market secondaries managers, has announced a global distribution partnership with Allfunds, the end-to-end WealthTech partner for the wealth and asset management industries with more than $1.5 trillion assets under administration across Mutual… Read More

June 2, 2025 @ 11:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Schroders Capital, the $99.3 billion private markets business of Schroders, has successfully raised over $600 million at the final close of its Schroders Capital Private Equity Global Innovation XI Fund. The latest fundraise has attracted global investors “including pension funds, insurance companies, foundations and family… Read More

May 29, 2025 @ 10:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Smart Pension, one of the UK’s workplace pension providers, launches its new investment strategy, which will see 15% of its flagship growth fund invested in private markets. This commitment supports the UK Government’s efforts to “encourage investment into national infrastructure and private companies, and reflects… Read More

May 8, 2025 @ 9:38 am By JD Alois  |  

A recent New Finance report states that the bigger threat is not the US market but private markets in regard to the moribund UK and European public markets The report claims: “Over the past decade, more than 1,000 listed companies in Europe with a combined… Read More

April 23, 2025 @ 8:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Generali Investments has announced the launch of its Private Credit Secondaries Fund in collaboration with Partners Group, one of the largest firms in the global private markets industry. The Fund, which will invest across a broad range of private credit secondaries transactions globally to “generate… Read More

April 20, 2025 @ 6:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Alto, a platform that enables individuals to invest in alternative assets through retirement funds, is announcing a partnership with InvestX, a North American asset manager that provides accredited investors access to select late-stage growth pre-IPO companies. This collaboration will allow Alto investors to “explore exclusive… Read More

April 9, 2025 @ 3:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Yieldstreet, a private markets investment platform, has recently announced the upcoming launch of Yieldstreet 360 Managed Portfolios — what it believes to be the “first” automated private markets investing solution. This investing solution is designed to remove traditional barriers to private markets, offering “diversified exposure… Read More

April 6, 2025 @ 5:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Coller Capital, the world’s private market secondaries manager, has acquired a $1.6bn senior direct lending portfolio from American National, a multiline US insurer. The investment reportedly marks the largest ever “LP-led credit secondaries transaction that is focused on a senior direct lending portfolio.” The transaction… Read More

April 5, 2025 @ 3:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Preqin, an independent provider of private markets data, recently released its Alternatives in North America 2025 report. The report estimates show that North American private capital growth slowed as both fundraising and performance “continue to come off previous highs from 2021 and 2022.” Regardless, the… Read More

April 1, 2025 @ 10:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Clearstream partnership provides Neuberger Berman with the flexibility to adapt to market demands by enabling them to scale their services in response to interest in private market allocations shown by distributors across geographical markets. By leveraging Clearstream’s distribution, custody, and transaction services, Neuberger Berman… Read More

March 26, 2025 @ 8:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

In a Citi (NYSE:C) research report, diversified financials analyst Nicholas Herman and team explore private wealth, which looks poised for substantial growth with a total opportunity for the industry of as much as “$70 trillion by 2033.” In Citi’s Deep Dive, they analyze drivers of… Read More