Luxempart

Luxembourg stock exchange listed private equity firm Luxempart on Monday said it entered into an investment agreement that will give it a stake of approximately 26 percent in Kestrel Vision for about 110 million euros.

Luxempart, a private equity firm listed on the Luxembourg bourse, said on Thursday that it has generated a “significant” investment return by selling the bulk of its stake in Swiss diagnostic radiology firm Rimed to diagnostic services provider Unilabs.

Luxempart, a Luxembourg-based investment and private equity company, on Wednesday said it has acquired a 8.4 percent stake in Nexus AG, a German-based publicly listed hospital software provider in Europe through a capital increase of 72.5 million euro.

Luxempart, a Luxembourg-listed investment and private equity company, has posted a consolidated net loss of 55.4 million euro for the first half as its investment income was hit by “extremely choppy” conditions in financial markets and the economy.

The loss compares to a profit of 499 million euros in the same period a year earlier. The firm said it maintained its net assets at 2.078 billion euros by the end of June, down slightly from from 2.169 billion a year earlier.

Family wealth managers are more and more challenged by demands placed on them by digitalisation, increasingly stringent regulations and complex cross-border taxation requirements. It’s an environment that encourages some wealthy families to join forces with others and enter their investments into a Multi-Family Office business, moving away from the traditional single-family office. “It’s the correct answer to the market.”

Is private equity, like Amundi’s Chief Investment Officer Vincent Mortier recently said, a Ponzi scheme? Or is there another reason to fear this asset class?

Luxembourg’s private equity business has experienced a boom in recent years as the Grand Duchy’s improved regime for alternative investments helped it benefit from strong growth in global private markets. For professional investors - family offices and pension funds alike - private markets have become an important asset class.