Amy Carroll
Private markets CFOs are navigating a fund finance market in flux in the wake of the regional banking crisis.
New entrants, use cases and increasing adoption highlight the potential scale of the market opportunity, but LP buy-in will be essential to growth.
The region’s mid-market private equity firms are being even more selective at a time when sector specialisation is key.
Private equity has made great strides with regards to its gender balance over the last decade. However, much work is yet to be done.
The amount of capital raised by impact-focused funds fell in the first half of this year, but strong underlying appetite means that the lull is likely to be short lived.
GPs are increasingly viewing environmental, social and governance considerations through a value-add rather than a purely value-preservation lens.
Recent economic and geopolitical events have laid bare the importance of ensuring supply-chain and procurement strategies are both optimised and robust.
As portfolio companies navigate labour shortages, talent strategies are becoming ever more crucial to the successful execution of value-creation plans.
Technology and data are playing an increasingly wide-ranging role in growth initiatives, with AI opening up even more avenues of possibility.
High inflation has prompted sponsors to place more focus on pricing, with many making increased use of data analytics to inform their strategies.