London-based private equity specialist Coller Capital and Germany’s largest lender Deutsche Bank have launched a distribution partnership that will see Coller Private Equity Secondaries Fund ( CollerEquity ) offered to the bank’s professional and qualified wealth management clients in Asia, and selected countries in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region.

CollerEquity, which launched in July 2024, has net assets exceeding US$800 million of capital in secondary private equity transactions and provides institutional and qualified non-institutional clients with access to Coller’s secondaries investment expertise and global platform through a Luxembourg-domiciled Sicav structure.

The fund’s portfolio, the company points out, consists of institutional quality private equity assets diversified by general partner managers and fund vintage as well as by geography and sector. Alongside diversification, the fund seeks to deliver a combination of absolute and risk-adjusted returns and the opportunity for more liquidity than traditional private equity funds.

The secondaries market is a critical provider of liquidity to the wider private capital ecosystem, Coller notes, with a record estimated volume of US$160 billion in transactions completed during 2024. The fund offers monthly subscriptions and quarterly redemptions. It can be accessed with a US$50,000 minimum commitment.

The company, which has offices in London, New York, Hong Kong, Beijing, Seoul, Luxembourg, Zurich, Melbourne, Montreal and Singapore, manages US$40 billion in secondaries across private equity, private credit and other private market vehicles.

“This global distribution partnership with Deutsche Bank will broaden access to CollerEquity through their extensive client network,” says Jake Elmhirst, Coller’s head of private wealth secondaries solutions and deputy head of capital formation.

Boris Maeder, the company’s head of international private wealth distribution, adds: “As investors increasingly seek strategies that are resilient to volatility and changing market conditions, we are seeing stronger than ever appetite for secondaries as a solution.”