Staff Writer
Climate change and inequality are interconnected challenges that cannot be addressed in isolation, say Rekha Unnithan, David Haddad and Radhika Shroff
of Nuveen’s private equity impact team.
Having a shared vision is key when investing in impact funds, says Elleke Maliepaard at German development finance institution DEG.
The UK social impact investing market has grown almost 10-fold over the last decade and continues to accelerate, says Douglas Sloan, managing director at Big Society Capital.
An intentional approach to place is required if economies are to work for all, says Shadi Brazell, senior programme manager at the Impact Investing Institute.
The PE approach to diligence is now less about what you get with an asset and more about what you can do with it, say EY’s Neil McFerran and Jason Spencer.
Being a communicative and reliable part of the supply chain can enable mid-market industrial companies to gain market share, says MiddleGround Capital’s Scot Duncan.
Corporate carve-outs present a host of operational challenges, but with the right execution they can become highly valuable businesses, says Tim Cochrane, director and head of the Full Potential Partners team at Montagu.
As inflation skyrockets, executing an effective pricing strategy has never been more important, say Tim Ham and Tom Wells at Pearson Ham.
LPs are pushing GPs to manage foreign exchange risk as currency volatility intensifies, say Tom Farrow, group director of trading, and Daniel Jack, senior trader at Monex Europe.
For PE firms backing software companies, the secret to speeding up value creation is to make some key product portfolio decisions at the outset, says Persistent Systems’ Punit Kulkarni.