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If investors were expecting the private equity market to jump back into action in 2024, they will have been disappointed.
After a subdued 2023, overall private equity investment and exit activity in the first quarter of 2024 continued to be challenged. However, there were bright areas in some segments of the market.
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Unigestion, the independent asset manager specialising in mid-market private equity transactions, has appointed Jordan Dimmock as a senior investment professional in its global secondaries team.
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In the second half of 2023, we saw an increase in secondaries volume, driven by LP stakes. Why is this and what have been the key drivers of recent activity in the secondaries market around the globe?
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The global economy is taking its first steps into a green revolution that is going to redefine incumbent industries as we know them and create new ones. Climate investment opportunities have already flourished as a result, despite the macroeconomic and geopolitical headwinds. However, for investors pursuing climate investments today, there are multiple challenges: selecting the most attractive segment within the broad climate opportunity, seeking alignment with their own impact objectives, relying on immature track records, benchmarking impact methodologies and keeping up with a fast-changing regulation.
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Unigestion, the independent asset manager specialising in mid-market private equity transactions, has appointed Jordan Dimmock as a senior investment professional…
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In this video, Unigestion’s Head of Private Equity Investments, Francesco Aldorisio, chats with Stephane Pesch from the Luxembourg Private Equity & Venture Capital Association, about Unigestion’s approach to private equity investing.
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Unigestion has expanded its distribution capabilities in Germany with the appointment of Markus Becker.
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Generating liquidity in private equity portfolios is increasingly challenging. Market conditions mean there is a reluctance among would-be buyers to commit to acquisitions and difficulties for sellers looking to exit holdings at attractive premiums. The bar for exits may be very high, but some GPs are bucking the trend. Watch the replay on our latest webinar, ‘The Art of Exits’.
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Income investing has long been of interest to equity investors seeking capital growth and attractive yields. Ageing populations and historically low interest rates have increased demand for such investments further. But income investing is not without its complexities. How can artificial intelligence help asset managers overcome these potential pitfalls and deliver consistent outperformance for clients?
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Is there a chance that investors can look to AI to help make the right calls? What styles can be used to harvest alpha cyclicality and how can AI select the right metrics to define risk-premias? Our Equities portfolio managers, Amélie Séguin and Nicolas Poignant, answered these and many more questions on what machine learning is telling us about the trends for 2024 in our latest webinar, ‘AI equities alpha – illusion or reality? An outlook for 2024’
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Unigestion, the independent asset manager specialising in mid-market private equity transactions, has appointed Jordan Dimmock as a senior investment professional…
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In contrast to liquid equities, private equity is characterised by scarce and low-frequency data with limited past history of observations. Consequently, while machine learning has gained widespread adoption in the analysis and forecasting of public equities returns, its application in private markets is more problematic.
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Despite anecdotal reports of scattered deal doing, the odd headline-grabbing exit and multiple fund managers on the road fundraising, the overall market data continues to show subdued activity.
The post-COVID heights reached in 2021 remain a distant memory. Investment activity in Q3 was stable vs Q2 but the overall year-to-date is almost 40% down vs the same period last year.
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During our webinar, ‘Secondaries in an AI world’, Paul Newsome, Head of Portfolio Management, was joined by Ralph Büchel, Head of Secondaries, Marco Perfetto, Associate, and David Ng, Senior Vice President, to discuss the current state of the secondaries market and how, through the use of AI, we can hope to win by uncovering the hidden gems and, most importantly of all, avoid the banana skins.