Research & Data

Sponsors have become the largest seller type with GP-led deals jumping 71% year-on-year.

Interactive charts showing return expectations, drivers of pricing, use of leverage and other key points from Evercore and Setter Capital's full-year reports.

Buyout fund Sun Capital VI commanded a 26% premium to NAV, according to a survey by the online secondaries marketplace.

Last year was the lowest for final closes since 2011.

A total of $54.6bn worth of secondaries deals traded last year, 4.4 times the amount transacted in 2009.

The most recent vintage of secondaries funds is considerably larger than the last, though last year's closes suggest the mid-market may be an exception.

The new secondaries database shows which of the biggest firms are raising.

Expect another year of healthy trading in the market for second-hand fund stakes.

Family offices are twice as likely as institutional investors to sell private equity stakes due to poor manager performance.

A combination of high valuations, geopolitics and currency concerns is affecting the asset manager's secondaries market outlook.