2025-10-14
18 分钟A lot of investors are now taking a second look at secondaries.
Once a niche corner of the financial world, private equity secondary funds,
which by existing stakes from other PE funds,
have experienced substantial growth over the past few years.
So what does the growth tell us about private markets as a whole?
And what role can secondaries play in portfolios today?
I'm Allison Nathan, and this is Goldman Sachs Exchanges.
Today, I'm joined by my colleagues, Harold Hope and Alex Blosten.
Alex covers US asset managers and other financial companies for Goldman Sachs research.
And Harold sits in our asset and wealth management division,
where he is the global head of vintage strategies,
one of the world's largest secondary fund managers.
Harold, Alex, welcome to the program.
Thank you.
Thanks for having us.
So Harold, let's start at a very basic level here.
What is secondaries investing?
And tell us a little bit about the history of the space.
We really love the private equity model,
but one of the big drawbacks is that it's very illiquid and private equity investments can often last 10,