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.
The net pooled returns of secondaries funds beat ILPA's all-alternatives benchmark across a quarterly, yearly and 10-year basis.
The German private equity firm's latest buyout fund has allocations towards primaries, secondaries and co-investments.
Kanji Takenaka will be charged with building a business which accounts for more than 12 blue-chip Japanese investors worth $2bn in AUM.
Matt Jones and Rudy Scarpa are two of four promotions to the committee, which also counts secondaries professionals Elly Livingstone and Dennis McCrary as members.
El Paso Firemen & Policemen's Pension Fund has made a commitment to Partners Group Real Estate Secondary 2017 which is seeking €2bn.
Volumes and pricing continued their upward trajectory in 2017, as Asian sellers took a step back from the market, according to Greenhill Cogent.
The preferred equity specialist has raised $729m a month after Secondaries Investor reported that the firm was preparing to hold a close in the first quarter.
The success of the former Cogent Partners team increases the likelihood Greenhill will have to pay an earn-out linked to its performance.
The advisory firm believes the increased efficiency of the market has blunted the power of secondaries as an opportunistic strategy.
The pension is putting an initial $50m towards a separate PE account that can invest in primaries, secondaries and co-investments.
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