{"id":2658,"date":"2020-12-28T20:14:53","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T19:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matador.ch\/private-equity-indispensable-but-difficult-to-invest-in\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T02:18:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T01:18:11","slug":"private-equity-indispensable-but-difficult-to-invest-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matador.ch\/en\/private-equity-indispensable-but-difficult-to-invest-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Private equity &#8211; Indispensable, but difficult to invest in"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_2_3 2_3 fusion-two-third fusion-column-first\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-top:0px;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;width:65.3333%; margin-right: 4%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p style=\"font-size: 14px;\">Published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unternehmeredition.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Entrepreneur Edition<\/a>, December 2020<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><p>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.<br \/>\n<em>FROM YANNICK BARTH<\/em><\/p>\n<p>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<br \/>\nreturns 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.<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a data-wps-event=\"download-unternehmer_edition_unternehmervermo%cc%88gen2021-pdf\" href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Unternehmer_Edition_Unternehmervermo%CC%88gen2021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-top:0px;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;width:30.6666%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-image-element in-legacy-container\" style=\"--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-1 hover-type-none\"><a class=\"fusion-no-lightbox\" href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Unternehmer_Edition_Unternehmervermo\u0308gen2021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Unternehmer_Edition_Unternehmervermo\u0308gen2021_cover\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"791\" src=\"https:\/\/matador.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Unternehmer_Edition_Unternehmervermo\u0308gen2021_cover.jpg\" alt class=\"img-responsive wp-image-1784\" srcset=\"https:\/\/matador.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Unternehmer_Edition_Unternehmervermo\u0308gen2021_cover-200x264.jpg 200w, https:\/\/matador.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Unternehmer_Edition_Unternehmervermo\u0308gen2021_cover-400x527.jpg 400w, https:\/\/matador.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Unternehmer_Edition_Unternehmervermo\u0308gen2021_cover.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-media"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Private equity - Indispensable, but difficult to invest in - Matador Secondary Private Equity AG<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/matador.ch\/en\/private-equity-indispensable-but-difficult-to-invest-in\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Private equity - Indispensable, but difficult to invest in - Matador Secondary Private Equity AG\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/matador.ch\/en\/private-equity-indispensable-but-difficult-to-invest-in\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Matador Secondary Private Equity AG\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-12-28T19:14:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-12-26T01:18:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"fastnormal\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"fastnormal\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/matador.ch\\\/en\\\/private-equity-indispensable-but-difficult-to-invest-in\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/matador.ch\\\/en\\\/private-equity-indispensable-but-difficult-to-invest-in\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"fastnormal\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/matador.ch\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/a48c2985e1962d68556032f6aee30540\"},\"headline\":\"Private equity &#8211; 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