'A buyer's market': What is behind the fanfare for private equity secondaries?

Ares and Ardian unpick the trend

Valeria Martinez
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Once a niche market, secondary private equity has become a more mature asset class and one of the few viable routes to liquidity for private equity funds, especially in a challenging M&A backdrop and dry IPO market.

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