Videos

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 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.

Our Operating Directors, who are industry experts and entrepreneurs in their respective fields, work directly with the CEOs and management teams at portfolio companies to formalize strategies and drive growth above and beyond base cases. Watch this video to hear from some of our ODs including Christine Deputy, Chief People Officer at Pinterest and Operating Director at portfolio company KinderCare, and Inderpreet Wadhwa, Operating Director at portfolio company Sunsure Energy, on why the diversity of perspectives that Partners Group’s entrepreneurial governance fosters is so important.

The private markets industry has its roots in leveraged buyouts, where firms often looked to break up conglomerates. To be successful today, private markets firms need to be business builders that combine scale of resources with a transformational investing approach. In this video, Steffen Meister, the Executive Chairman of Partners Group’s Board, explains that modern private markets firms can actually learn from the best conglomerates, which rank highly in five specific dimensions: strategic rigor, entrepreneurial governance, operational excellence, proven playbooks, and talent strategy.

The first half of 2023 has cemented the shift into a new macro regime. With the end of an era of global trade integration, cheap and abundant debt, we believe we’re entering a ‘brave new world’ of investing. Our latest Private Markets Outlook – written by Tina Jessop, Senior Economist, Stephan Schäli, Chief Investment Officer, and Nils Bartel, Global Head Capital Markets – presents our views on the implications of this change for the economy and for private markets investments.