PE Analyst Secondaries -> Direct Investing PE Associate

Hey everyone,

Wanted to get opinions on moving from PE secondaries to direct investing. I am interviewing for a 2 year role for a PE analyst for MM secondaries market at a well-known brand. I was wondering coming out of this, will I be able to recruit for direct investing PE associate roles with adequate networking/through headhunters?

The firm says people coming out of the 2 year program are either directly promoted to associate, go to top business schools, or go to direct investing firms. I just wanted to get thoughts from people on this forum if they know of people moving from secondaries to direct. I tried doing LinkedIn stalking to see if people did in fact make the transition but had a hard time trying to track people in general that were in this role before.

Any advice/thoughts would be greatly appreciated and thanks in advance!

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Is it possible? Sure. Have seen people from Secondaries funds do so, especially from the big players (Coller, Lexington, etc). Seems like a very good time to get into Secondaries though. Have friends in the industry who are really enjoying it. Great pay, decent hours, increasingly interesting deals - have been lots of innovation in this market in recent times.

 

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