Column: Smooth operator
For a full decade after the global financial crisis, private equity enjoyed benign market conditions, with a positive investor landscape, low interest rates, robust economic growth and low volatility. It’s fair to say that all that has now changed.
As macroeconomic conditions become increasingly challenging – characterised by rising interest rates and energy prices, soaring inflation, war and political turbulence – private equity firms are faced with tightening markets and fewer exit opportunities.
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