SSA & Company was proud to have participated in the CIO Alternative Investments Summit hosted by Wharton Private Equity & Venture Capital Alumni Association. We were honored to partner with our colleagues across Council Advisors and The Miles Group to serve as a gold-level sponsor, supporting this forum where leaders from private equity, venture capital, hedge funds, family offices, and more shared insights on the evolving world of alternative investments.
Our team was able to engage in thoughtful discussions with peers focused on topics including operational excellence, leadership development, and AI investment. We were also happy to share insights from our article Growth Equity Today: Adapting Buyout Playbooks to Accelerate Performance.
We look forward to continuing these important conversations and are excited to continue assisting our peers in the alternative investments space.
Growth Equity Today: Adapting Buyout Playbooks to Accelerate Performance Growth equity firms today face extraordinary market characteristics. Hold periods have extended, many investments are ‘upside down,’ and fund IRRs, on average, have turned negative. Additionally, capital costs have increased, and raising capital has grown increasingly difficult.
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External headwinds and difficult performance outlooks have forced private equity firms to rethink near-term prospects and portfolio company strategies. In this Value Walk article, Matt Katz and Andrew Solar outline a new playbook for private equity companies leading in uncertainty.
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2023 was a difficult market in many ways. Acquisitions and dollars invested along with exits and IPOs were down while capital under management continued to accumulate. As a result, the world for financial sponsors grew much more competitive, causing them to focus on building distinctive, proven competitive advantages – in raising capital, in finding deals, in exiting, and of course, in fundamental value creation.
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