Private Secondary Markets
Partially due to increased compliance and reporting obligations enacted in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, private secondary markets began to emerge, like SecondMarket. These markets are generally only available to institutional or accredited investors and allow trading of unregistered and private company securities.
In private equity, the secondary market (also often called private equity secondaries or secondaries) refers to the buying and selling of pre-existing investor commitments to private equity funds. Sellers of private equity investments sell not only the investments in the fund but also their remaining unfunded commitments to the funds.
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