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Aquilius Investment Partners, Singapore-based investment manager focused on secondaries in Asia Pacific, has closed its maiden AIP Secondary Fund I (AIP SF I), with more than $400 million in client commitments.
Alongside these commitments, Aquilius has raised an additional $200 million of managed accounts available for co-investments from its investors. AIP SF I’s global institutional base consists of sovereign wealth funds, endowments and family offices.
AIP SF I will target investments in traditional and non-traditional secondaries transactions across the Asia Pacific region. To date, the fund has made investments across a comprehensive set of secondary solutions ranging from the acquisition of limited partnership interests to recapitalization of closed-ended funds and joint ventures. It seeks to capitalize on the liquidity needs across Asia’s private markets landscape.
“We have seen strong institutional demand for our dedicated Asia secondaries strategy