Published in Entrepreneur Edition, December 2020
Private equity (PE) is still underrepresented in the investment mix of many investors. And this despite the fact that almost all available studies show long-term outperformance. As indispensable as private equity appears to be, especially when investing large entrepreneurial assets, the asset class is also difficult to invest in. The question of how to do it anyway remains all the more interesting.
FROM YANNICK BARTH
It goes without saying that many investors are familiar with private equity, but how many portfolios contain a significant proportion of this asset class? In German-speaking countries, private equity continues to lead a rather shadowy existence. The Anglo-Saxon capital markets are well ahead of us here. It is possible to achieve attractive
returns with private equity even without investment sums in the high double-digit million range. We present three approaches and provide an estimate of the investment volume required for each.
