The Wrap: archive
Every The Wrap story in Interval Funds, newest first. 64 stories
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The platform buyers set Monday's advisor price
A $1.25 billion liftout with an office attached shows the clearing price for advisor talent has moved to practice-level acquisitions.
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The day UBS, Merrill, Raymond James, and LPL swapped talent
Monday's advisor moves made clear that transition capital, not brand, sets the market clearing price.
The 5% cap is a constant; the queue decides who gets paid
Two BlackRock-affiliated private credit funds, one 5 percent cap, and a 57-point gap in outcomes that only the length of the redemption line explains.
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The repurchase cycle reaches the C-suite and the balance sheet
Terms moved first because they were cheapest; this week sponsors started spending their own balance sheet and replacing managers, shifting who absorbs the queue's cost without shortening it.
EQT opens its Asia buyout book to individuals
With the U.S. shelf crowded, the $396 billion firm is betting Asia-Pacific wealth rails can carry its buyout book to individual investors.
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VineBrook’s discounted exit is a capital raise in disguise
A four-year redemption freeze ends with a 37 percent discount to NAV and a condition: new capital must arrive before old money leaves.
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Insurance-owned broker-dealers are the liftout wave's next donors
A $3 billion breakaway, an 18-advisor team and a Corebridge loss to Lincoln Investment on Sept. 7 point independent platforms toward insurance-owned broker-dealers.
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The semi-liquid market is outrunning its redemption problem
A 50-fund registration queue with 26 first-time sponsors points to a repurchase cycle that will be more crowded, not more resilient.
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Redemptions reach the C-suite
Partners Group moved its most senior investor into the CIO chair as sponsors across the semi-liquid complex work management and distribution levers before they touch gates.
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Semi-liquid sponsors borrow as investors refuse the exit
A 26% tender discount drew no takers while OCREDIT's leverage hit 0.98x, moving the pressure from redemption gates to balance-sheet strain.
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Commonwealth loses teams to a startup RIA and Cetera
The same-day exits show independent broker-dealers are now prime recruiting ground for new RIAs and consolidators.
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NAV REITs Flip Positive as Credit Loses the Shelf
Stanger's July tally shows credit fundraising down 43% as private placements carry a $104 billion hard-asset rotation.
Blue Owl hardens tender funding behind unchanged 5% gate
The facility amendment behind the unchanged gate shows semi-liquid credit is pre-funding its first repurchase cycle.
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Liftouts Turn Inward as Independents Raid Their Own
The same day brought a $1.6 billion Cambridge-to-LPL move, two four-advisor teams to Osaic, and a $1 billion Citizens grab — evidence that independent platforms now compete on capital, not just independence.
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Franklin's under-subscribed tender sets up the real test
The next tender, on a $2.13 billion asset base, will show whether wealthy investors actually want semi-liquid secondaries, or whether the liquidity promise is still just a pitch.
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SEC proposal would give semi-liquid funds one national shelf
The rule would end state-by-state blue-sky review and make shelf placement the center of interval and tender-offer fund distribution.
First-time sponsors flood a $233 billion shelf
Distribution gatekeepers decide which of 308 semi-liquid funds capture advisor demand.
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Semi-liquid capital rotates from BDC exits into hard assets
Record BDC repurchase requests and a three-year fundraising low are pushing wealth dollars into nontraded REITs — and industrial land.
Semi-liquid funds add $61B in 2025 as sponsors pile in
XA Investments' quarterly update counts 308 funds and $233 billion in net assets, with first-time sponsors behind 36% of 2025 launches.
The Semi-Liquid Exit Now Has a Cover Charge
Prorated tenders and below-NAV offers now set the exit price for nontraded BDC investors.
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Semi-liquid funds sell liquid assets to buy illiquid ones
Record redemption queues are pushing nontraded REITs and BDCs to sell liquid assets and borrow privately instead of widening repurchase caps.
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NAV BDC repurchase queues diverge as redemptions hit a record
Three large tender-offer funds report repurchase demand from zero to a sharp jump as the sector posts record outflows.
Nineteen filings flood the semi-liquid shelf
As Cerulli projects a $2 trillion rise in advisor private-capital books, debut interval and tender-offer products from T. Rowe-Goldman and PGIM-Partners Group hit a wrapper already under stress from BCRED's fourth straight NAV decline.
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Blackstone reprices, Apollo doubles down
BCRED's fourth straight quarterly decline tests the semi-liquid pitch. Apollo is betting $150 billion from private wealth that scale outruns the repricing.