Secondaries | Investment Insight
March 30, 2023
The Expanding Opportunities for Sponsor and Secondary Solutions
The Expanding Opportunities for Sponsor and Secondary Solutions
Today, investors face a unique and challenging macroeconomic environment, defined by tightening monetary and financial conditions, inflation and volatility. Against this uncertain backdrop, we believe that there will be an increased desire for liquidity and that private market secondaries are poised to offer flexible capital and creative solutions to both LPs and GPs.
Veena Isaac | Co-Head of Apollo Sponsor & Secondary Solutions (S3)
Steve Lessar | Co-Head of Apollo Sponsor & Secondary Solutions (S3)
Konnin Tam | Co-Head of Apollo Sponsor & Secondary Solutions (S3)
We believe that flexible, opportunistic, and diversified secondary strategies could be well positioned to capitalize on distress and dislocation to provide investors with excess return per unit of risk. We see a compelling opportunity set for nimble secondaries market investors who can provide a range of tailored investment solutions, particularly in mid-sized secondaries transactions.
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