Fundraising

Golding Infrastructure 2018 will invest in around 15 infrastructure funds via primaries and secondaries.

The manager has merged its three fund of funds units to form Flexstone Partners with $6.7bn in AuM.

Strategic Equity Fund III, which focuses on complex end-of-life secondaries processes, launched in April targeting $1.6bn.

The West Coast niche secondaries firm ranked 29th in the latest SI 30 list of biggest fundraisers.

The US pension has committed $150m to each of the firms' latest private equity funds and is also considering buying and selling on the secondaries market.

SOF IV is targeting $100m more than its predecessor and has a 10% hurdle rate, according to documents prepared for a US pension.

The firm is seeking $3bn for its latest dedicated secondaries fund, 18 months after hitting a final close on its predecessor.

The Deutsche Bank spin-out has gone past the $1.75bn target for its first fund launched as a standalone firm.

The firm is seeking as much as $7bn for its eighth flagship private equity secondaries fund, Secondaries Investor has learned.

The pension, which was set to explore a secondaries sale over the summer, is considering a $150m commitment to the Blackstone unit's Fund VIII.