Videos

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.

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.

We combined two companies – Ammeraal Beltech and Megadyne – to form AMMEGA, taking the business from belting experts to a strong global team. Through our deep thematic expertise, we identified an attractive transformative trend across industrial automation and saw strong development potential in the sector. Ammega is now the global leader in industrial power transmission, lightweight process, and conveyor belting. Together with the management team, we have been working to strengthen Ammega, bringing in the best of both companies, by attracting and developing top talent since our investment on behalf of our clients in 2018. Watch the video to learn more about our long-term, transformational investing approach at Ammega.

Our portfolio company atNorth operates data center infrastructure across the Nordics, with sites that leverage optimal climate conditions and renewable energy to run compute-intensive workloads for a large variety of customers. In this video, Esther Peiner, Managing Director, Private Infrastructure Europe, Ismail Afara, Member of Management, Private Infrastructure, and Eyjólfur Magnús Kristinsson, atNorth CEO, discuss why the Nordics are the best location to build data centres in Europe – if not the world – and how, together with the company’s management team, we are aiming to build the data centers of tomorrow.

Today, Partners Group published its Corporate Sustainability Report, which provides a detailed overview of our ESG performance at portfolio and corporate level in 2022.
Watch our ESG highlights from 2022 here.