data snapshot

The strategy delivered higher returns across most timeframes compared with the previous quarter and a year earlier.

Firms are planning to raise $77bn by the middle of next year, according to the advisory firm's latest survey.

Volume exceeded the previous first-half record of $22bn last year, with transactions of $500m-plus driving activity.

Private equity and real estate secondaries funds raised $12.7bn in the first half, an almost 50% drop year-on-year.

The strategy underperforms the All Funds Index over all time-frames except the 10-year bracket, according to data from ILPA.

Buyout stakes trading at 10% premiums to NAV last year were 'not uncommon'.

IT, growth capital and emerging markets are some of themes to have emerged so far in the investment period of LGT's latest secondaries fund.

A highly competitive market is leading to reduced return expectations and lower success rates, according to a report compiled by UBS and obtained exclusively by Secondaries Investor.

LPs from Canada, Norway and Benelux are all expecting to raise their deployment to secondaries, according to research by Rede Partners.

Data from NYPPEX and Elm Capital show holding on to the oldest of these assets might not be worth the trouble.