For the first time in secondaries an optional curriculum covering sex and contraception in the context of relationships will be made compulsory previously schools only had to teach the fundamentals of reproduction , contraception and puberty in science lessons .
It is easily the group 's largest secondaries effort to date , in the midst of what is shaping up to be another banner year for secondaries fundraising and deal volume .
它轻松成为这个集团迄今最大的二级市场基金,今年整体二级市场资金筹集和交易量看起来将继续高歌猛进。
So I spent some time on the phone with brian talbot , head of pe secondaries at neuberger berman , to understand where his group plans to invest $ 2 billion .
Sixty-three percent of the washington , dc-based firm 's assets under management are either in direct private equity investments or in indirect private equity investments ( the latter via alpinvest , a giant private equity fund-of-funds and secondaries firm acquired last year ) .
For context , 2012 was the second-best year on record for pe secondaries fundraising ( after 2009 ) with $ 20 billion in capital commitments , and effectively tied 2011 for the most-ever deal volume with around $ 25 billion in transactional value .
He also believes that while large u.s. pension funds first began engaging in secondary sales due to future liquidity crunch fears , they 've now begun to use secondaries as a prudent rebalancing tool – something he believes is becoming part of business as usual .