Coller Capital and Deutsche Bank expand access to private equity secondaries

Anika Sidhika

Thu, May 15, 2025, 4:08 AM 3 min read

Coller Capital has aligned with Deutsche Bank to marque its flagship backstage equity secondaries fund, CollerEquity, disposable to nonrecreational and qualified idiosyncratic investors crossed Asia and selected EMEA countries.

The collaboration is designed to bring institutional-quality secondaries vulnerability to Deutsche Bank Wealth Management clients. It marks a important measurement successful the democratisation of backstage marketplace investing, traditionally the sphere of ample institutions.

Launched successful July 2024, CollerEquity is an open-ended money with implicit $800m successful nett assets. It invests successful a diversified portfolio of backstage equity secondary transactions, providing entree to Coller Capital’s 35-year way grounds successful the market.

Moreover, the money is structured arsenic a Luxembourg-based SICAV and allows monthly subscriptions and quarterly redemptions, with a minimum committedness of €50,000.

Jake Elmhirst, partner, caput of backstage wealthiness secondaries solutions and lawman caput of Capital Formation astatine Coller Capital stated: “This planetary organisation concern with Deutsche Bank volition broaden entree to CollerEquity done their extended lawsuit network. We look guardant to moving successful adjacent collaboration with the bank’s adept advisers to assistance backstage wealthiness investors heighten their portfolios with the further diversification, j-curve mitigation and charismatic risk-return characteristics that backstage equity secondaries provide.”

The practice comes arsenic the secondaries assemblage experiences unprecedented growth, with transaction measurement expected to scope $160bn by 2024. As liquidity remains a captious constituent of backstage superior strategies, investors are progressively looking to secondary markets to get vulnerability to seasoned assets portion eliminating the customary extended lock-up periods associated with backstage equity.

CollerEquity’s portfolio spans aggregate geographies, sectors, vintage years, and money managers, aiming to present a blend of implicit and risk-adjusted returns.

Marco Zamberletti, planetary caput of advisory solutions astatine Deutsche Bank Private Bank shared: “We are delighted to bring our clients entree to top-tier backstage marketplace secondaries opportunities done our concern with Coller, successful enactment with our absorption connected driving beardown lawsuit outcomes and offering enhanced opportunities to physique high-quality and resilient portfolios. We see backstage markets secondaries arsenic an integral portfolio constituent for our qualified clients, and we volition continuously grow our offering.”

The organisation volition beryllium supported by Coller's Private Wealth Secondaries Solutions (PWSS) team, which presently has 50 committed specialists worldwide and is backed by the firm's larger platform. In conformity with section legislation, the money is besides disposable successful assorted different jurisdictions, including Canada, Australia, Europe, and the Middle East.