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Madorsky: Retail funds dominated large secondary portfolio purchases in 2024

Jon Madorsky · Jon Madorsky – Navigating the Evolution of Private Equity Secondaries (EP.448) · May 29, 2025 · at 33:13

Jon Madorsky, partner at RCP Advisors, discusses the rapid influx of retail capital and evergreen funds into private equity secondaries.

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“When we've seen a lot of the larger portfolios and even a lot of the limited partnership positions trade in 2024, the retail funds have been the main connoisseur of this product.”

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The claim, plainly

In 2024, retail-focused funds were the primary buyers of large portfolios and limited partnership positions trading in the private equity secondary market.

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Assessment

Full-year 2024 secondary market advisory reports (including Jefferies, Evercore, Campbell Lutyens, Greenhill, and Lazard) show that traditional dedicated institutional secondary managers (such as Ardian, Lexington Partners, Blackstone Strategic Partners, Goldman Sachs, and HarbourVest) remained the primary buyers and anchor capital for large LP portfolios and LP positions. While retail, evergreen, and '40 Act vehicles were active bidders on select high-conviction stakes within multi-buyer mosaic structures and represented an increasing share of fundraising, their deployment capacity remained constrained (typically capped at $200 million to $300 million per transaction according to Campbell Lutyens), preventing them from acting as the primary buyers of large secondary portfolios in 2024.

Campbell Lutyens reported that evergreen capital earmarked for secondaries represented ~7% of secondary funds raised in 2024 and noted that evergreen funds lacked the capacity to take down more than $200M–$300M of exposure individually.
Advisory reports from Jefferies, Evercore, and Lazard confirmed that traditional dedicated institutional mega-funds (e.g., Ardian's $30B ASF IX) dominated capital volume and served as the lead/primary buyers of large LP-led portfolio transactions in 2024.

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[1] fundfinancefriday.com [2] thelephant.io [3] pei-secondariesinvestor.com [4] angelinvestorsnetwork.com [5] buyoutsinsider.com [6] campbell-lutyens.com [7] patria.com [8] johncowan.io

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