Private Equity Indigestion Relief Is Meant to Hurt

Helping an investor cash out of a gummed-up buyout fund used to be a niche business. Now it’s mainstream. So-called secondary funds, which offer to buy unwanted private equity holdings, have become widely accepted. It would be a shame if normalization overshadowed one of the key reasons they have flourished — to remedy seemingly ill-disciplined investment in private markets during the era of easy money. READ MORE