Welcome to the Bank of America Resource Center featuring education and insights on all things private markets.
Private Markets Education
Strategy Education
What are Secondaries and how do they work?
Secondaries involve a transfer of a private equity interest from one investor to another. Secondary buyers will purchase an investor’s commitment to a private equity fund and become a replacement investor (limited partner, or LP). In this primer explore the mechanics of a secondary transaction, types of secondary transactions, portfolio benefits, investor cash flow experience, and the advantage of the Hamilton Lane platform.
Hamilton Lane Insights
What Are LPs Talking About?
We explore a few of the big topics that LPs can’t stop talking about, woven together with and supported by a few pieces of our proprietary data.
Inflation: We’ve Seen This Movie Before…Or Have We?
Lurking in the back of most investors’ minds remains a question of how best to prepare for the likelihood of rising interest rates.
GP-Led Transactions: What LPs Need to Know
Limited partners investing into the space now need to evaluate the secondary market’s evolution and what it means with regard to portfolio allocation and manager selection.