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Rod James

Rod James is a reporter with Secondaries Investor and also contributes to sister title PrivateEquityInternational.com. He is based in the London office. Prior to PEI, his roles included a stint as a freelancer covering fintech and transaction banking, CEEMEA capital markets reporter with EMEA Finance magazine, and editor of the Latin American political and economic risk team at IHS Global Insight.
At least 12 firms with secondaries operations made sister publication Private Equity International's list of the biggest private equity fundraisers over the last five years.
Is the internal rate of return the most appropriate way of presenting investment performance?
The Carlyle subsidiary has been in market since January last year seeking $1bn to invest in real estate secondaries.
The firm is in late-stage talks with a potential backer to restructure its 2007-vintage New Europe Partners II vehicle, Secondaries Investor has learnt.
This was the 12th deal from the directs-focused's firms latest fund, which is around 50% deployed.
The Italy-focused buyout firm was mulling a process on its 2007-vintage vehicle, which has four remaining assets including a shoe manufacturer.
The listed fund manager made secondaries investments in Oak Hill Capital Partners and backed a restructuring, according to its preliminary annual results.
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Auda Asia Secondary Fund, which came under the HQ umbrella in 2015, had been on the market since October of that year.
Stanislaus County Employees’ Retirement Association, which has $2.1bn in assets, will gain its first PE exposure through the creation of a private investment programme.
The preferred equity specialist has raised $836m since launching in January, more than twice the total raised for its debut fund.
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