Who are the biggest secondaries investors?
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16 of 26 names confirmed · named in 2 or more of 15 answers · 0 engines
The biggest secondaries investors are Ardian, Blackstone Strategic Partners, Lexington Partners, Goldman Sachs Asset Management, and HarbourVest Partners. These firms are consistently ranked as leaders in the secondaries market, with Ardian being the largest and most active player. They manage massive pools of capital and have raised billions of dollars in dedicated secondaries funds.
- 1Ardiannamed in 13 of 15 answers
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- 2Lexington Partnersnamed in 13 of 15 answers
- 3Blackstone Strategic Partnersnamed in 12 of 15 answers
- 4HarbourVest Partnersnamed in 12 of 15 answers
- 5Goldman Sachs Asset Managementnamed in 11 of 15 answers
- 6Coller Capitalnamed in 11 of 15 answers
- 7StepStone Groupnamed in 8 of 15 answers
- 8Pantheonnamed in 8 of 15 answers
- 9AlpInvest Partnersnamed in 5 of 15 answers
- 10Carlylenamed in 5 of 15 answers
- 11Partners Groupnamed in 5 of 15 answers
- 12Ares Managementnamed in 4 of 15 answers
- 13AlpInvestnamed in 3 of 15 answers
- 14Blackstonenamed in 2 of 15 answers
- 15Carlyle AlpInvestnamed in 2 of 15 answers
- 16Pantheon Venturesnamed in 2 of 15 answers
- 17HarbourVestnamed in 1 of 15 answersone answer
- 18Hamilton Lanenamed in 1 of 15 answersone answer
- 19LGT Capital Partnersnamed in 1 of 15 answersone answer
- 20Adams Street Partnersnamed in 1 of 15 answersone answer
- 21Goldman Sachsnamed in 1 of 15 answersone answer
- 22Apollo Global Managementnamed in 1 of 15 answersone answer
- 23EQTnamed in 1 of 15 answersone answer
- 24CVC Secondary Partnersnamed in 1 of 15 answersone answer
- 25Neuberger Bermannamed in 1 of 15 answersone answer
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- The position each of the 15 engines gave all 26 names.
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- Where the engines disagree, and by how much.
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