Fund Finance

Portfolio finance can offer additional investment firepower or a source of liquidity, both of which are in high demand in the fallout from the pandemic, explains Augustin Duhamel.

In the first of a series on the implications of leverage use by secondaries funds in a downturn, we look at fund-level facilities.

Investec Fund Finance’s Slade Spalding discusses options GPs have when raising or releasing equity against their management companies, in this sponsored article.

The preferred equity specialist's founder Pierre-Antoine de Selancy discusses what finance is available after a vehicle's investment period in this sponsored Q&A.

Dividend recaps and back-levered preferred equity are among the trends to emerge in the past year, according to a survey obtained exclusively by Secondaries Investor.

The preferred equity specialist is seeking €1.8bn for its fifth flagship vehicle.

The appointment comes one month after the Blackstone secondaries unit amassed $11.1bn for its Fund VIII.

Houlihan Lokey’s Jeff Hammer and Paul Sanabria discuss the benefits of undertaking GP-led secondaries in private debt.

The hire comes at a time of sustained growth for the preferred equity firm.

The bank's secondaries advisory group has teamed up with its fund financing unit and has deployed as much as $3bn over the last two years.