Partners Group Chairman Steffen Meister at IPEM, Paris, September 2023
Steffen Meister, the Executive Chairman of our Board, was a keynote speaker at IPEM in Paris. In his speech, Steffen explained that private markets have become the new traditional asset class and outlined his key predictions for the industry's future. This includes how the democratization of private markets is leading to new entrants, which could change the investor landscape; why transformational investing can build resilience during the biggest economic recalibration ever; and what the increased scale of private markets means for allocation strategies.
Partners Group Chairman Steffen Meister at the 2023 Milken Asia Summit
Steffen Meister speaking at the Global Investment Outlook panel at the Milken Institute's Asia Summit in September 2023.
Q&A with Mike Bryant, Head of Private Real Estate
In the last decade or so, core real estate investment lived a golden era. Low interest rates and cheap financing meant managers could buy assets in the core segment and secure an attractive return from rent collection. But with the emergence of a new macro regime many of those macro tailwinds have become headwinds. Going forward, double-digit IRR returns in real estate will increasingly depend on a hands-on approach to thematic sourcing and asset transformation. In this Q&A, Mike Bryant, Head of Private Real Estate at Partners Group, explains how investors are turning their attention to the ‘value-add’ segment of real estate. Through value-add strategies, we have the capacity to transform assets with a hands-on approach to meet evolving ESG requirements as well as the preferences of tenants in the corporate and consumer segments.
Partners Group Board of Directors: Gaëlle Olivier
In this video, Gaëlle Olivier, the newest member of Partners Group's Board of Directors, shares her views on the critical role of private markets as rapid technological advancement – including AI – fundamentally changes society and business. Gaëlle joined the Board in May following a distinguished 30-year career in financial services. Through her Board committee assignments, she will contribute to Partners Group’s strategic Board-level initiatives with a focus on clients and operations.
The Role of Secondaries in the Evolution of Private Markets
The secondaries market has grown significantly in recent years, surpassing the USD 100 billion mark in transaction volume. Rather than just a by-product of relentless growth in investment activity, secondaries are now supporting the evolution of private markets into a more versatile and liquid asset class.
In this Q&A, Andres Small, Managing Director at Partners Group, outlines the long-term factors underpinning this trajectory and explains how a thematic and integrated approach to the asset class – particularly in a period of market dislocation – makes secondaries an especially compelling strategy right now.