In the Media

“Private equity should not just be reserved for wealthy individuals or institutional investors. And to make it more broadly available to individuals, it must be included in savings structures like a 401(k), which today serves as the only retirement vehicle for most Americans,” Daniel Cahill, Member of Management, says in an interview with Pensions and Investments about the evolution of DC investment menus. He also explains why including private markets in retirement plans can be a driver of retention in a highly competitive employment landscape.

Pascal Noth, Managing Director Private Equity Health & Life, and Jean Ghabache, Member of Management Private Equity Health & Life, spoke with PE Hub Europe about the huge investment potential within the pharmaceutical services sector. The reshoring of production, driven by supply chain vulnerability, and increased outsourcing by large pharma companies are key trends in the space. In May 2023, Partners Group, on behalf of its clients, invested in Sterling Pharma, a contract development and manufacturing organization, that is positioned to benefit from growth in pharma services.

Rob Collins, our Co-Head of Private Wealth, spoke with Buyouts for its “Off-duty” column about his career and life outside of work. When asked for a most rewarding moment, Rob tells the story about how, after he joined Partners Group, his father asked how to invest in private equity. As a retired New York City social worker, Rob’s father had savings to invest but lacked a vehicle through which to do so. This inspired Rob to help create the industry’s first purpose-built private equity fund for the US private wealth market in 2009, with Rob’s father writing the fund’s first USD 50,000 check. You can learn more about Rob, including his favorite food and least favorite buzz word, in this interview.

Esther Peiner, our Co-Head Private Infrastructure Europe, and Ed Diffendal, Co-Head of Private Infrastructure Americas, spoke with Infrastructure Investor about the investment rationale for data centers, and how they sit at the crossroads of two Partners Group giga themes: digitization and decarbonization. Esther explains that Partners Group is more active on the platform expansion side of the data center opportunity set, where driving strategy with a focus on energy and sustainability considerations can positively differentiate assets. In the interview, Esther and Ed also talk about how investment opportunities differ in Europe versus the US.

Jessica Wichser, Global Co-Head of Real Estate Asset Management, and Kelly Xu, Head of Real Estate Asset Management Asia, spoke with PERE about the challenges associated with scaling up management-intensive value-add residential and logistics portfolios. In this deep dive interview, Jessica and Kelly break down a range of topics including how to evaluate the competitive landscape before rolling out a strategy, the approaches that can be adopted to manage properties within granular portfolios, and the difficulties involved with reporting in an aggregation strategy.

Today, the roles of public and private markets have almost completely reversed from those in the 1980s. When it comes to raising new capital, public markets are the realm of opportunistic IPOs, while private markets are the realm of real economy investment and strategic corporate development, writes Steffen Meister, the Executive Chairman of the Board at Partners Group, in Private Equity International. Steffen argues this role reversal will attract new entrants to private markets, resulting in firms differentiating themselves between active and passive investment approaches. Truly active private markets firms, which are business builders focused on value creation, will be best positioned to deliver sustainable returns in the future.