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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Matt Katz shares insights into the changing DTC retail market in this Retail Dive article.
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As customers continue to demand more personalization and transparency from retailers, Nick Kramer highlights how AI can make this easier for companies in this Retail TouchPoints article.
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As organizations continue to experiment with AI, Nick Kramer outlines what to expect to see in terms of innovation and expansion of AI over the next year in AI in this CIO article.
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In life insurance and annuities, the promise has always been unwavering stability and resilience. Insurance companies have adapted to the times by being measured and purposeful, living their commitment to providing long-term security. The last decade challenged this paradigm, having introduced a relentless wave of innovation, including contactless underwriting, consumer demand for digital-centric interactions, the office impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the entry of private equity, and rapid fluctuations in interest rates, with the looming threat of declining asset values already requiring another round of new investment strategies, product revisions, and balance sheet optimizations.
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Pierre Buhler was featured in this American Banker article outlining strategies for credit card issuers operating in an increasingly complex environment.
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Nick Kramer was quoted in this CIO article about things to consider when choosing a gen AI vendor.
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Nick Kramer was featured in this TechTarget article looking at the top trends and priorities for CIO’s in 2024.
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Fears of recession persisted for much of 2023 but now, analysts are cautiously shifting the conversation. Matt Katz was featured in this WWD article discussing how retail will be impacted in 2024 as fears of recession ease.
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Last year, rather focus on growth, many retailers focused on cutting costs. Matt Katz was quoted in this Modern Retail article discussing pressures that led many retailers to focus on cost cutting last year.
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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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Managing Director Pierre Buhler was recently profiled by his Alma Mater, Universite de Strasbourg, in France. Read the translated article below:
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Matt Katz is featured in this Barron’s article examining consumer spending over this Black Friday and Cyber Weekend.
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