Investissement

US house prices have climbed over 6% in the past year, pushing the value of homes nearly 3% above their peak from June 2022. This increase came despite the Federal Reserve’s aggressive interest rate hikes aimed at curbing rampant inflation. Clearly, the traditional models for predicting house prices are no longer reliable.

Les investisseurs actifs se focalisent souvent beaucoup trop sur l’indice de référence. Ce « benchmarkisme » a des conséquences considérables. « La réflexion stratégique est compromise. »

In an unstable investment environment with wars and crises looming worldwide, contradictory inflation data as well as insecurity regarding interest rate development, alternative investments have evolved into a diversifying and stabilising element of institutional portfolios – and will continue to do so.

Les investisseurs en capital-investissement promettent la prospérité, mais ils mettent souvent en danger les entreprises de leur portefeuille. Pendant ce temps, le secteur se soustrait à la responsabilité juridique de ses actes.

Avec la lutte pour le pouvoir entre la Chine et les États-Unis, la géopolitique est de retour en force. Elle a engendré une dynamique « perdant-perdant », dans laquelle chacun privilégie avant tout son propre intérêt. Pour les investisseurs, cela signifie un cycle plus volatil. Dans cette optique, les experts recommandent de penser en termes de scénarios et d’intégrer la gestion des risques dans leur pratique quotidienne.

Brendan Ballou’s book «Plunder» exposes how private equity firms, like Carlyle, harm businesses and evade legal responsibility, despite promising high returns. In this interview, Ballou discusses the alarming frequency and impact of these practices.

Inflation is rearing its head again, and many fear a rerun of the 1970s scenario. But here’s the catch: the world today is vastly different from back then, mainly because of our access to information. It’s a game-changer. Think about it: a smartphone user today holds more data in the palm of their hand than the US President had in the early 1980s. Knowledge about inflation isn’t just abundant—it’s at our fingertips, dramatically altering how we deal with economic crises.

Swiss-headquarterted private equity firm Partners Group has announced the launch of a new private equity European Long-Term Investment Fund (Eltif), opening up its private offerings also to retail investors. The fund is its first new private equity fund under the updated Eltif regime.

The Partners Group Private Equity Evergreen was already registered in Luxembourg in December and has a minimum investment threshold of 10,000 euro. The fund will be available to investors across Europe, including Germany, France, Spain, Italy, and the Benelux regions.

The U.S. economy has long enjoyed what might be called a Goldilocks scenario: robust growth paired with gradually declining inflation. However, recent data suggest that those days are behind us.

Take, for example, the recent GDP figures which illustrate a stark downturn. After quarters of 4.9% and 3.4% growth, the economy slowed to a mere 1.6% annualized growth in the first quarter of this year. 

Avant de devenir CEO de Moonfare, Steffen Pauls a été aux commandes de KKR, en Allemagne, pendant plus de 11 ans. Il a quitté la société d’investissement américaine e 2015, mû par un nouvel objectif : rendre les marchés privés accessibles aux particuliers. Et il ne comprend que trop bien que ce groupe cible puisse avoir quelques préoccupations éthiques vis‑à‑vis du secteur.