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Private Equity

Tapping higher-growth companies

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Putting capital to work

Investing in private equity opens up a broader universe of companies than those listed on public stock exchanges. Many early stage and growth-orientated companies can only be accessed through private equity, given the high costs associated with public listings.

Private equity investment strategies are typically structured around the following:

Buy-out strategies

A change in the ownership of an established company to facilitate a change in management, a new strategic direction, a change in capital structure or to drive improved operational performance.

Venture strategies

Seed money and funding for start-up or early stage companies that are at the beginning of their journey to commercialise their products and services.

Growth strategies

Investing in companies that are more advanced in the commercialisation of their products and services but require high levels of investment to achieve their full potential.

Turnaround strategies

Investing in companies that have run into operating difficulties in order to implement significant change to management, corporate structure and operations to become profitable.

The case for private equity

Private equity investments can provide attractive returns that have a low correlation to major stock markets.

The potential benefits of private equity investing include:

  • Private ownership enables a greater influence on management and the strategic direction of a company to ensure investor objectives are met.
  • Long-term nature of investment helps to ensure better alignment of interests between investors and management, resulting in better outcomes.
  • Potential for enhanced investment returns over the long term in exchange for investing in less liquid assets.

Why Schroders for private equity?

With $12.7 billion of private equity assets under management (30 September 2021), Schroders and Schroders Capital focuses on specialised investment solutions that provide our clients access to select private equity segments through primary, secondary and direct/co-investments. We have more than 20 years of experience in private equity management.

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Private equity at a glance

  • A solid track record of absolute and relative performance across investment strategies and vintages.
  • Global market coverage with local, on-the-ground presence by an experienced and stable investment team.
  • A focus on specialised investment opportunities that are poorly represented by public equity markets.
  • An established global network with access to restricted managers.
  • Deep analytical approach with rigorous investment process.
  • ESG (environmental, social and governance) integration into all investment activity and monitoring.
  • A pioneer in applying data science and machine learning to private equity.
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Risk warnings
Past performance is not a guide to future performance and may not be repeated.
The value of investments and the income from them may go down as well as up and investors may not get back the amounts originally invested. Exchange rate changes may cause the value of any overseas investments to rise or fall.
Alternatives can be more volatile than shares and bonds, and it may be harder to cash in the investment at short notice. Private Assets offer less liquidity than publicly listed securities. Please note: this is not a complete list of risks but rather an overview of some risks.

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