Carlyle gathered $ 20 billion to buy used private stock shares

By Isla Binnie

(Reuters) -Carlyle Group said on Thursday that it raised 20 billion dollars to buy private stock shares used from investors looking to cancel the assets that have accumulated during the recession period in the public lists and acquisition deals.

Carlyle said that the Alpinvest unit of the investment company, which operates in the secondary market, raised 15 billion dollars for its latest major fund, along with $ 3.2 billion of joint investment obligations.

The company said in a statement that the company, which was raised for $ 2 billion, for private wealth vehicles, which will invest the wealthy money alongside the main fund.

The slowdown in deals led to the accumulation of about 29,000 companies with a value of $ 3.6 trillion in the portfolios of the stock companies by the end of 2024, according to research from the advisers in Payne.

The secondary market provided a way to obtain some cash for these assets, albeit usually with a discount on previous evaluation.

Ben said in the Special Arrows report 2025 that the value of the secondary market assets swollen to 601 billion dollars in 2024 from 273 billion dollars in 2019 and is now 5 % of all shares associated under the administration worldwide.

(I participated in the reports of Isla Bankinging by Ross Russell)