Private Equity is Thriving.

 

In 2006, 660 billion dollars have been invested by private equity funds, an increase of eighty eight per cent over 2005.

 

And the beginning of 2007 showed an increasing pace. With all this money in the market, how is it still possible to achieve true outperformance ?

 

Back in the old days, it used to be that only a small number savvy investors would engage themselves in private equity, naturally making it a very inefficient market. Today however, the market is becoming more and more efficient with new records in terms of dollars raised is being established year after year. Does this mean that the time has come where one has to be happy with only slight outperformance against the public markets? Luckily not. It just means that there is one has to rethink their portfolios theories and adapt to the private equity market as it exists today.

 

This conference will allow delegates to understand in depth the different segments that exist within two days private equity market and how to select the top tier teams within those segments that have remained inefficient throughout the boom and thus still offer outperformance possibilities.

Some of the key topics that will be discussed are:

• The current state of the private equity market

• Making sense of today's venture capital market: what to do when you can get in the top tier of funds?

• There are a growing need for specialisation in the European buyout market

• Value created in buy-out

• Global private equity: understanding emerging markets

• Does the secondary market allow you to access better manager?

• What are secondaries?

• The rise of Sovereign investment vehicles defining a new form of captive investments strategies

• The convergence between private equity and hedge funds

• How to select the most promising funds within the US smallcap growth and buyout market?

Many other topics will also be approached during this conference to get a full and accurate picture of today's private equity markets.

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With the best Private Equity experts...

 

Dr. Leonard Lerer

(Executive Director, INSEAD Healthcare Management Initiative) France

Mr. Christiaan De Lint

(Partner, Headway Capital) United Kingdom

Mr. Nicholas W. Hofgren

(Principal, First Avenue Partners LLP) United Kingdom

Mr. Edouard Cukierman

(Managing Partner, Catalyst Fund) Israel

Mr. Jean-François Biry

(Chairman and CEO, DBV Technologies) France

Dr. Franz Krejs

(Partner, Investment Director, Primus Capital Vezetői Tanácsadó Kft) Hungary

Mr. Thomas Liaudet

(Principal, Campbell Lutyens) United kingdom

Mr. Jonathan Silver

(Managing Director, Core Capital Partners) United States

Mr. Guy Semmens

(Partner, Argos Soditic SA) Switzerland

Mr. Joe Sovran

(Partner, Capvent) Switzerland

Mr. Robert Bidwell Bibow

(Partner, Atlantic-Pacific Capital ) United Kingdom

Mr. Robert Vaenerberg

(Executive Director, Financial Sponsors Group; ABN AMRO Bank NV) United Kingdom

Mr. Michael Russell

(Partner - Head of Europe, Altius Associates) United Kingdom

Dr. Christian Diller

(Head of Portfolio and Risk Management, Capital Dynamics) Switzerland

Mr. Gleb Davidyuk

(Partner, Mint Capital Russia) Russia