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AlpInvest registers ninth onshore secondaries fund as three continuation vehicles close unpriced

Ibex's $87 million Israel-focused fund was the week's only secondaries close with a disclosed figure; Sun Capital and Center Rock were among three continuation vehicles reported without prices.

Ares raises $4.2 billion for debut structured solutions fund, topping $1 billion target

Ares set a $1 billion target for the vehicle, which finances private-equity managers; separately, three continuation vehicles closed without reported prices.

Ares raises $4.2bn for debut structured solutions strategy, topping $1bn target

The debut vehicle targets financing for private-equity managers, which AltAssets ties to growing demand for that exposure.

SaaS buyout median falls to 11.7x as three continuation vehicles close unpriced

Forvis Mazars and PitchBook put the median at 11.7x, down from 20.4x across 702 sponsor deals worth $58.8 billion.

SaaS buyout multiples fall to 11.7x from 20.4x on $58.8bn of sponsor deals

Forvis Mazars and PitchBook put the median EV/EBITDA multiple on private equity SaaS deals at 11.7x in the first half, down from 20.4x, across 702 transactions worth $58.8bn.

Center Rock closes Power Services Group continuation vehicle led by New 2ND Capital

PE Hub reports no price, vehicle size or rollover terms for the Cape Coral turbine-parts supplier.

Ibex closes $87m secondaries fund as three continuation vehicles close unpriced

Among the week's secondaries closes, only Ibex's carried a disclosed dollar figure; Sun Capital's Anderson Global closed with no price, size or named lead buyer.

Reach Capital floats €1bn-a-year GP-led budgets for CDPQ and Allianz

A published extract presents the €1bn-a-year allocations as hypothetical; the week's continuation vehicles closed without asset-level marks.

Fidelity launches $451 million debt fund as three continuation vehicles close without disclosed prices

Barings filed a credit vehicle and Värde launched one, both without disclosed sizes, the same week Sun Capital's Anderson Global closed without a disclosed price.

Sun Capital closes Anderson Global continuation vehicle with no disclosed price

The vehicle gives Fund VIII LPs a liquidity option or a roll, and neither its size nor any lead buyer was disclosed.

Reach Capital's William Barrett floats €1bn-a-year GP-led budgets for CDPQ and Allianz

A standing €1bn-a-year commitment from each would add €2bn of annual GP-led demand, though the published extract reports a hypothetical and not an announced budget.

Sun Capital closes second continuation vehicle; Ibex closes $87 million secondaries fund

The Anderson Global vehicle gives Fund VIII LPs a liquidity option or a roll, but no price, size, or lead buyer was disclosed.

Sun Capital closes second continuation vehicle of 2026 for Anderson Global

The vehicle gives Fund VIII LPs a liquidity option or the chance to roll; the report carries no price, size or lead buyer.

Ibex closes second Israel-focused secondaries fund at $87 million

AltAssets reported the close on 28 September, the week's only clean fundraising figure as larger secondaries deals printed without asset marks.

Anchorage Capital GP stake prints at $4.7 billion with no asset mark

A $101 million bank sale and three GP-led continuation vehicles closed without asset-level prices, leaving the week's secondaries tape anchored to a management company's fee stream.

Ibex closes second Israel secondaries fund at $87m, more than doubling its predecessor

AltAssets reported the close on 28 September; the accessible page carries no LP base, target or strategy detail.

A bank set the only price secondaries printed this week

Three GP-led continuation vehicles closed without a mark, and the absence is the mechanism: buyers are underwriting the sponsor's valuation rather than the company underneath.

Secondaries cleared everything this week except the assets

A $101 million bank balance-sheet sale and a $4.7 billion Orix–Anchorage GP stake printed; three continuation vehicles closed without an asset-level mark.

The $101 million print cannot mark an unpriced continuation vehicle

A bank's balance-sheet sale is not an asset mark, and the week's three unpriced continuation vehicles show the GP-led market still has no external anchor.

GP stakes clear the secondaries backlog

A $4.7 billion Orix–Anchorage Capital closing shows capital moving through manager economics while LP-led trades stay stalled.

Aging funds and sponsor price optimism stall the LP-led market

BDO's research pairs a longer tail of funds past five years with sponsor expectations of higher prices, leaving voluntary LP sellers unwilling to trade below marks.

Aging PE holds swell LP supply; GP price optimism stalls it

BDO's research points to a longer tail of funds running past five years just as sponsors tell surveyors they expect to buy at higher prices, a pairing that suggests LP-led books will price slowly rather than cheaply.

Guardian Alarm shows benchmark-free CV pricing is now the default

Three GP-led continuation vehicles closed without a published mark, including Guardian Alarm's security-services deal; the LP-led side printed one number. Sponsor valuations now set the price from fertility to security services.

Certares and New 2ND Capital close an unpriced Guardian Alarm continuation vehicle

Four days after Amulet's unpriced fertility CV, the GP-led market has another closed deal whose mark nobody outside the room can see.

A $101 million print forces the CV debate

Priced LP-led trades give buyers a benchmark to use against Amulet's unpriced US Fertility continuation vehicle.

Two secondary pricing regimes, and only one has an anchor

A $101 million bank position and a Dutch pension fund set one reference for the week's LP-led supply; Amulet's US Fertility continuation vehicle closes with no published price, leaving buyers to run two underwriting models.

Banks and pensions are restocking the LP-led secondaries market

A $101 million bank position and a BlackRock agreement with a Dutch pension fund are the week's real supply story, and sellers like these price off the balance sheet rather than the asset.

Amulet closes a US Fertility continuation vehicle with no reported price

The fertility comp is a number the sponsor and lead buyer keep to themselves.

The continuation vehicle's second life

Built to hand LPs an exit, the continuation vehicle has become a front door for small LPs — and their OCIO may be standing in it first.

Small LPs turn GP-led deals into an on-ramp

A structure built to hand LPs an exit is being bought by LPs who want an entrance—and the OCIO's seat sits ahead of its clients' capital.

StepStone's fertility CV prices equity like credit

A benchmark-free fertility continuation vehicle shows the GP-led market now prices services assets off the sponsor's mark rather than the tape.

Secondaries dry powder finds its home in unglamorous CVs

Single-asset continuation vehicles for a fitness-equipment maker and a shipping franchise are clearing while the mega LP portfolios wait.

Secondaries' barrier is talent, not money

A $1 billion pre-hire commitment and an allocator's launch show capital now follows people.

Golub buys secondaries sourcing, not a strategy

The $1bn was committed before the hire, and a market with too much capital and too few invitations now pays for relationships rather than vehicles.

A Children's Health allocator leaves to build a secondaries firm

Gordian Investment Group's premise that execution rather than capital is the secondaries bottleneck will be tested on precisely the deals other buyers walk away from.

StepStone leads a US Fertility continuation vehicle, and the price stays private

A single-asset fertility deal arrives with a family count in the headline and no valuation anywhere in it.

Watch the discount on India's CV pipeline

Hong Kong panelists expect Indian secondaries exits to precede fundraises, and a negative buyout benchmark gives buyers the cover to price continuation vehicles below sponsor marks.

India will sell continuation vehicles before it raises. Watch the discount

Indian sponsors are expected to run secondaries exits ahead of fundraises, putting the GP-led desk in the position of underwriting sponsor marks against a buyout benchmark that has just turned negative.

India's DPI pressure is the GP-led desk's next pipeline

Panelists at a Hong Kong private equity forum expect secondaries exits to precede Indian fundraises, sending supply to buyers who price off sponsor marks.

TrueBridge's $508 million splits the secondary market in two

Venture buyers get the discount, the GP-led side gets the sponsor's number, and HarbourVest's negative quarter draws the line.

OCIOs buy GP-led secondaries for deployment speed

Speed-first buyers have already accepted the sponsor's mark.

Two CVs close. Two pricing regimes. One day.

Pantheon's €1.2bn credit CV has no public benchmark; Kelso's $510m MEP CV is ordinary. Each prices on terms, not marks.

A €1.2bn credit CV has no public benchmark. The terms are the price.

Credit's arrival in the GP-led market moves the pricing question off published comps and onto covenants, rollover terms and one lead buyer's underwriting.

Kelso's $510 million MEP continuation makes GP-led secondaries ordinary

The sticker price says little; the rollover, fees, and covenants will decide whether this middle-market exit works.

Peterson's Kelso continuation shows GP-leds going routine

The $510 million fund for a Utah mechanical, electrical and plumbing contractor is the GP-led market's mundane face: the trade's real content sits in the terms, not the headline.

Gainline rolls Core Health into StepStone-led continuation

The single-asset vehicle gives existing LPs a liquidity option while adding fresh capital to fund the fitness equipment maker's expansion.

Pantheon leads €1.2bn Bridgepoint Credit continuation

The second Bridgepoint-Pantheon GP-led in two days prices an illiquid credit book with no public benchmark.

TrueBridge’s $508m secondaries fund doubles the strategy

The firm more than doubled its venture secondaries pool; the test is whether it can deploy the money at disciplined discounts.

Hudson Hill closes single-asset CV for InXpress

PE Hub reports the close for the freight and parcel services provider, with no valuation, vehicle size, or investor names disclosed.

Bridgepoint's Pantheon deal puts secondaries prices in public view

An 11x Saviynt rollover now has to answer to a public benchmark.

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