Publications
& Policy

Becker Friedman institute: PE-owned nursing homes have a lower quality of care than those owned by other types of investors.

"We use competing risks methods to investigate the causal link between venture capital (VC) investments supported by the EIF and the exit prospects and patenting activity of young and innovative firms."

In this consultation response, Invest Europe reiterates that there is no need for a re-opening of the AIFMD because of a variety of factors. In addition, any changes to the AIFMD regime would lead to additional costs and (administrative) burden for the industry as members will need to re-adapt and get to grips with new requirements. If necessary, improvements to the AIFMD regime can be sought via Level 2 or 3 measures, or in the context of other legislative reviews.

Brand new analysis of Venture and Buyout statistics, looking at the transaction value of Venture-backed and Buyout investments.

The European Long Term Investment Funds (ELTIF) framework, if not currently successful, has the potential to become a relevant tool in the future if it appropriately takes into consideration the needs of private equity managers. In this response we detail which changes would increase the take-up of this voluntary retail passport: broadened eligible assets, opening to fund-of-funds and requirements that are more tailored to the specificities of long-term, closed-ended funds.

This document provides the conversion table from Invest Europe sectoral classification to NACE codes.

Over the years EU Risk Finance Guidelines allowed many start-ups and scale-ups to benefit from state aid support. While we note that the current regime is broadly appropriate, we suggest in this response a few changes that could be introduced to the Guidelines to make it easier for innovative companies to be eligible when owned by private equity.

2021 has been a pivotal year for European Deep Tech

"This issue focuses on the following topics: Does private equity genuinely outperform public equity?; Is the public company an out-of-date model in the 21st century?; Why some LPs seem to consistently outperform their peers; Are male investors neglecting female entrepreneurs at their own cost?

A forward-looking Market Sentiment Survey capturing the views of more than 350 GPs and LPs on the future of the private equity industry in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

ICMA Centre, Henley Business School, University of Reading, Reading, UK: "This study reviews syndication amongst UK/European and US VCs in order to ascertain their rationales for syndication"

LPeC's publication Accessing growth opportunities in the 2020s explains what listed private capital is, why it matters and how it democratises access for all investors.