In the Media

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.

Our Private Infrastructure Asia team sat down with Infrastructure Investor to discuss Partners Group’s decarbonization investment activity across the APAC region. This included the firm’s exit from CWP Renewables, a vertically integrated renewable energy business in Australia, and investment in Sunsure Energy, a leading renewable energy and decarbonization solutions platform in India. In this article, Andrew Kwok, Nicholas Kuys, and Luv Parikh explain how Partners Group’s thematic investing approach enabled the team to transform CWP from a wind project into a renewables platform and also build conviction around Sunsure Energy’s future growth prospects.

“From an investor perspective, it is important to have a broad funnel of opportunities, flexible capital to play across the capital structure, and a good view of relative value to provide crea­tive financing solutions that will work for borrowers,” Abhishek Dhayal, Member of Management Private Debt Americas, told Private Debt Investor in an interview on why having a flexible lending strategy is key. Abhishek and Oliver Baker, Member of Management Private Debt Europe, also discussed private debt crossing over into broadly syndicated loans, the opportunities that exist in Asia, and the junior debt market.