Continuation vehicles: Necessary innovation or elegant excuse?
02.07.2025 – Articles
The industry revealed its true feelings on the contentious topic in qashqade’s 2025 Summer Survey.
What do you get when you mix long-hold assets, GP creativity, and a dash of awkward LP conversation?
A continuation vehicle. Or, depending who you ask… a polite shrug, a reputational risk, or a cunning playbook for GPs who might not raise again.
As part of qashqade’s 2025 Summer Survey “Life in Private Markets”, THE LINE_ threw a curveball into the mix with one burning question:
Continuation vehicles are… ?
No one answer dominated because, “It depends” is still the unofficial motto of private markets.