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Luxury brands: Private equity's leadership challenge
Luxury brands: Private equity's leadership challenge

Towerbrookтs plan to sell Jimmy Choo this year for an estimated ТЃ500m, more than twice its value three years ago, highlights the significant benefits that can be reaped from investing in the luxury apparel sector. However, the deal also brings to the...

Banks seek to make hay while the sun shines
Banks seek to make hay while the sun shines

Looking around Europeтs buyout markets, it is clear that some banks are well and truly back in the game. But the recent rise in deal completions, including those at the top end of the scale, masks an altogether more complex marketplace. Julian Longhurst...

Money to burn?
Money to burn?

Instead of the expected, traditional summer lull in activity, the unquoteт editorial team has been busy reporting on a continuous stream of deal announcements and rumours over the past fortnight. While it is difficult to put any exact number on deals...

Blockbuster season
Blockbuster season

The industry is certainly in better shape than 12 months ago. The latest unquoteт Private Equity Barometer confirmed the sentiment, showing total private equity investment has more than doubled to тЌ25.5bn in the first half of the year compared to H1...

Second nature
Second nature

News of institutions cutting back on their private equity exposure by offloading their private equity assets has interrupted the lull in deal activity that one is more accustomed to during this time of year.

Solvency II criticised for 'inappropriate' stress test
Solvency II criticised for 'inappropriate' stress test

European regulators have come under fire for choosing an тinappropriateт way to measure the stress caused by private equity investments on insurance companies. Research from Partners Group suggests the regulatorтs favoured method of calculating private...

Private equity haunted by pre-crisis deals
Private equity haunted by pre-crisis deals

As AA and Saga are hitting the headlines once again, private equity it seems is being haunted by the ghosts of 2007тs exuberance. While the years preceding the financial crisis saw some of the largest private equity-backed deals of all time, many of these...

The return of the mega-buyout
The return of the mega-buyout

Mega-buyouts of over тЌ1bn are on their way back following a drought of activity during the global financial crisis, according to unquoteт research. Signs of life are starting to appear at the very top-end of private equity investing, but Europeтs buyout...

Finnish Industry Investment makes two investments

Finnish Industry Investment has recently provided venture capital funding for two deals; тЌ2.7m in silver mining company Sotkamo Silver, and тЌ3m in the passenger information and safety system developer Mitron Group Oy.

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Smaller investors look to private equity ETFs
Smaller investors look to private equity ETFs

Investors seeking to gain exposure to the private equity asset class have increasingly been looking to use synthetic products. Interest has not only been from smaller investors in search of lower liquidity risks and entry barriers, but LPs sitting on...

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