Optimise for long-term growth

When it’s time to move on, you can feel excited about the next stage. You might be retiring, taking up an exciting career shift or starting another business from scratch. The urge to move on quickly can pull your focus away from important details. And these can lead to mistakes.

Private equity firms invest in companies to enhance their value and improve their prospects for capital growth. Many firms invest in growing businesses and long-standing brands, but one often overlooked investment target is family businesses. Family businesses run with long-term intentions and a strong...

Private equity investing has increasingly entered the public consciousness over the last decade. Thanks largely to the emergence of the Silicon Valley tech bubble the advent of terms such as “Unicorns” to describe privately-owned start-ups with a valuation north of $1-billion, private equity investing has well...