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Emily-Jane Finigan will leave the private equity and real estate secondaries specialist at the end of April, Secondaries Investor has learned.

The firm has hired Heiko Dimmerling as chief operating officer.

The Canadian investment firm has appointed James Fung, a former Accenture strategy executive, to recommend technology implementations.

Gurdeep Gill has joined former Setter MD Robert McGrath at his recently launched fund of funds-focused secondaries firm.

Bob Alderman will focus on US advisory firms and brokers at Pomona Capital's secondaries-focused vehicle for high-net-worth retail investors.

The fund of funds manager invested around €200m in secondaries and co-investments last year, according to a statement obtained exclusively by sister publication Private Equity International.

The veteran fundraisers discuss the impact that fund restructurings will have on firms when they seek to raise new funds.

The world's third largest sovereign wealth fund wants to increase the number and types of deals it invests in with its GPs, including secondaries opportunities.

Réal Desrochers, managing investment director of the US's largest public pension’s private equity programme, will leave on Friday.

Principals have been appointed in secondaries, real assets, co-investments, credit instruments and product management.