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“We are managing the savings of millions and millions of people and we take it very seriously.”
“We invest in businesses and help them grow faster, get stronger, innovate more, go international and create value and jobs.”
We're really here to manage money, create growth, create jobs. My name is Louis Godron, I'm a Private Equity investor and I've been doing this passionately for 35 years and why that I really love that job and I love it because it's a job where you manage two very interesting sides of the business the first one is that we manage everyone's money. I mean we are managing through life insurance through pension funds and the savings of millions and millions of people we take it very seriously of course but we take equally seriously the work that we do with this money which is in our case to invest in midsize businesses throughout Europe and help them grow faster, get stronger, innovate more, go international, and all this creating a lot of valu,e a lot of jobs as well and all this value is then returned to the savings of the people in a very virtual circle. So we're really here to create growth, create jobs, generate value, and return the value to the people.
Of course there are some difficult times and challenges I mean when covid occurred for instance it was a difficult time and we had to spend a lot of time to provide support to our portfolio companies actually not financial support it's been a lot of managerial support to the portfolio companies in these unprecedented times and we are evolving in these challenges. The next challenges for us is is how are we going to accompany our portfolio companies as regards the climate change mitigation risks and opportunities and as regards artificial intelligence risk and opportunities and that is what is making a great investment at the end it's the way we can support the companies throughout all the cycles that go on.
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24 Apr 2023
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06 Apr 2022
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Press releases
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