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Nordea Private Equity Secondary Fund I reaches its EUR 150 million target size ahead of final close

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Luxembourg, LU — On 04 December 2020, Nordea Asset Management* achieved an important milestone in its Private Equity strategy, reaching the target size of EUR 150 million for its first secondary-investments focused fund, Nordea Private Equity Secondary Fund I, ahead of the final close on 12 January 2021.

Nordea Private Equity Secondary Fund I was launched in 2019 and complements Nordea’s Private Equity flagship fund, Nordea Specialised Investment Fund, SICAV-FIS – Global Private Equity Fund, an open-ended solution with over 50 institutional investors and private equity commitments of over EUR 1bn to top quartile funds since 2012.

In a low-yielding environment, investors are looking for opportunities within illiquid asset classes and secondary investments have been delivering strong returns of around 18% gross IRR since 2013**. Covid-19 has proven to positively impact secondary deal flows, with many general partners utilizing this market to provide liquidity to their investor base. Nordea Private Equity Secondary Fund I takes advantage of this environment and focuses on EUR 5-50m transactions in individual funds, GP-led and larger syndicated deals.

Christen Estrup, Head of Nordea Private Equity:
“This new product—and indeed our whole product range—offers smaller and medium-sized investors access to Private Equity investments, thanks to a lower threshold for commitments and shorter deployment periods, leading to a rapid scaling of private equity exposure combined with a typically shorter duration. We are making illiquids more liquid for our clients.”

Nordea Private Equity (NPE), a boutique within Nordea Asset Management (NAM), offers a range of diversified Private Equity investment vehicles and manages capital on behalf of institutional clients, family offices and foundations. NPE is one of the most active private equity fund investors in Northern Europe with an annual deployment of over EUR 500m.

The NPE team has over 40 years of combined private equity experience and collectively, the team has executed more than 30 secondary transactions, with a total value of over USD 8bn.

Julien Marencic, Manager of Nordea Private Equity Secondary Fund I:
“We are very proud of our clients’ confidence despite a very challenging environment and believe that our high selectivity and strong focus on quality assets will enable our first secondary fund to deliver attractive returns to investors.”

In 2020, NAM decided to further deepen its offering in the illiquid space by expanding its internally-managed Private Equity offering as well as developing Private Credit solutions. NAM also maintains a partnership with Trill Impact AB, a Private Equity firm founded by Jan Ståhlberg, one of the most renowned PE veterans.

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**Date: 31.12.2019. Based on performance of portfolio managed by NPE. The performance represented is historical; past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results and investors may not recover the full amount invested. The value of your investment can go up and down, and you could lose some or all of your invested money. There can be no warranty that an investment objective, targeted returns and results of an investment structure is achieved.

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