Private Equity Guest Articles

Contributed articles by experts from across the private equity industry

Carry On Divorce

19 June 2023 Public Adele Pledger

Are you a fund manager? Are you married or do you intend to get married? Ever wondered what would happen to your carry if you were to get divorced?

Cautious Optimism for Private Equity

19 June 2023 Public Danny Cole

Hopefully, this year will again be "a game of two-halves", but this time ending on a positive note

Is The Private Equity Hype Over (?)

6 June 2023 Public Dmitri Alexeev

We thought it would be interesting to see how the private equity folks are doing versus their public peers

The New Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection

5 June 2023 Public Sandra Ezri

On 1st of September 2023 Switzerland is enacting its New Federal Act on Data Protection

Smart Tech Customer Expansion Enabling Automatic Cross-Selling

30 May 2023 Public Bruce Sinclair

Smart digital improves existing customer expansion strategies and enables new ones for physical products, services and environments, that until now were only available to software companies

Making the Most of All That Dry Powder

15 May 2023 Public Tom Acfield | Julie Neal

With the uncertain economic outlook ongoing, fund managers should continue to proceed with caution

Data-Driven Market Expansion Identified by Artificial Intelligence

1 May 2023 Public Bruce Sinclair

Using AI and data mining to discover market adjacency insights can augment or replace the traditional market expansion playbooks used today

Smart Digital Value Creation for Tech and Software Companies

8 March 2023 Public Bruce Sinclair

At a high level, smart tech value creation is architected with an AI or analytics model at its core

Market Share Expansion Through Product Innovation with AI

21 February 2023 Public Bruce Sinclair

Smart tech plays two new and meaningful roles in market share expansion: defining the ideal customer profile to market to, and making a product more competitive

New SEC Rules: Why Investment Firms Must Step Up Their Cybersecurity Oversight

20 February 2023 Public Christian Scott

With April only weeks away, firms need to proactively prepare for and respond to these imminent rules

The LTAF – A New Type of FCA Authorised Fund

13 February 2023 Public Grania Baird | Leon Chng

The LTAF has generated considerable interest, particularly from the defined contribution (DC) pension scheme market, where there has been recent positive news on the price cap rules

The Competitive Advantage of Incorporating Smart Digital into PE Diligence

6 February 2023 Public Bruce Sinclair

Incorporating smart digital value creation into diligence enables the sponsor to see value invisible to other value creation methods

Improving Buy and Build Results with Smart Digital

30 January 2023 Public Bruce Sinclair

Unlike consolidating IT systems, orchestrating multiple products to work together produces not only a more innovative solution, but a less expensive one too