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How can investors avoid missing out on attractive new investment opportunities when distributions from prior investments remain so lacklustre? While exit activity in Q3 was flat vs. Q2, exit volume over the year-to-date remains more than 20% down vs. the same period in 2023.
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The Unigestion Equities team showcases the latest progress they have made in leveraging AI to improve risk and alpha forecasts, and details how they have embedded these innovations into portfolio construction techniques.
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Headline discounts hardly say anything about a secondary deal.
Indeed, there are many other factors which are important when executing a high quality secondaries strategy. Our webinar, ‘Why discounts don’t matter’ explores many of these factors and looks at why discounts may just be nice window dressing.
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Growth in climate investments has outpaced broader markets. Having invested in the climate opportunity since 2010, this new series of videos details some key observations about climate investing, as well as insights from some of the CEOs running companies that benefit from the climate challenge.
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The covid crisis prompted a period of close-to-zero interest rates around the world, and an injection of significant monetary and fiscal stimulus. This extensive support, however, proved a doubled-edged sword as while such support was essential, it combined with trade frictions to bring about a sharp surge in inflation. This was initially expected to be transitory but policy makers soon realised that severe action would be required to prevent an inflation/price spiral. Central banks around the world then began a co-ordinated hiking cycle.
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As investors come back from their well-earned summer breaks, one issue continues to prey on their minds: “when will I get my money back?”
Exit activity for the first half of 2024 was 27% below that for the same period in 2023. This slide in activity has continued since the peak reached in 2021 and does not show any near-term signs of reversing. Investment activity has also been lower – in the first half it was 18% below that of the same period last year.
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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’.