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Bloomberg
23-07-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Brookfield Is Missing Out on the PE Secondaries Boom Its CEO Saw Coming
By and Preeti Singh Save Bruce Flatt was clear with his prediction: the secondary market for private equity, real estate and infrastructure was ready to take off, and it could become a $50 billion business for his Brookfield Asset Management. Five years after the Brookfield chief executive officer's forecast, the boom has come and Brookfield has largely missed out. It's been on the sidelines as rivals rush to raise funds to buy chunks of portfolio companies from other buyout shops or offer their investors a way out.
Bloomberg
10-07-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Why Buyout Giants Are Investing in Each Other's Deals
A sputtering public offering pipeline and lingering dealmaking drought has private equity firms thinking a little smaller. More buyout shops are raising money to buy pieces of companies that other private equity firms can't or don't want to completely offload. The assets are landing in so-called continuation funds, which allow old investors to cash out and give new investors an opportunity to cash in.
