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From ABBA to heritage forests: the unexpected marriage driving the next wave of alternatives
A growing number of LPs is looking for assets that sit outside public-market cycles, and yet that still carry a clear sense of purpose. They want predictable cash flows, but they also want investments tied to real cultural or environmental value. In most corners of private equity, “alternative investing” means infrastructure, credit, or secondaries. At…
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“Cash is king, and anything else is an opinion”: private equity’s return to fundamentals
After a decade of easy money and multiple expansion, European private equity is rediscovering what value creation really means. At the DACH Private Equity Insights Conference in Munich, senior executives from Deutsche Private Equity, Bridgepoint, Eevolve, and Apheon agreed that the model is far from broken. However, the era when buyout firms could rely on cheap leverage…
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Exclusive Interview: Andrei Gemeneanu on building Romania’s private equity future
Andrei Gemeneanu, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Morphosis Capital, is on a mission to put Romania firmly on the private equity map. In this candid conversation with Private Equity Insights at CEE’s Largest PE Conference, he shares his views on the regional landscape, Morphosis Capital’s growth story, and how education and values-led investing play a defining…
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Exclusive Interview: Torge Barkholtz is rethinking SME succession through operator-led investing
Torge Barkholtz doesn’t deal in jargon. Nor does he try to dress up succession investing with flashy growth projections or hollow promises. What he’s building at Novastone Partners is far subtler and, arguably, far more ambitious: a re-engineering of how ownership changes hands in the often-overlooked world of SMEs. A founder with ventures spanning gourmet…
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Exclusive: Interview with Forbes Romania’s “30 Under 30” Ion Orins
Shaping the Future: The Developer Redefining Fintech and Blockchain at 18 At only 18 years old, Ion Orins landed a full-time role at Modex, a fintech and blockchain company, after impressing executives at a hackathon. Two years later, he was named in Forbes Romania’s 30 Under 30 for his contributions to software development. Now, as fintech, AI,…