Publications
& Policy

European Commission and the EIB have pledged dozens of billions of euros to help Member States and EU financial institutions provide the necessary liquidity to EU businesses while the ECB and the Eurogroup have taken important decisions to maintain the stability of the eurozone.

This Extraordinary Member Policy Call covered the special guidance the IPEV Board has prepared for estimating fair value in light of the the COVID-19 pandemic. 

This letter, shared with Executive Vice-President Vestager and Commissioner Breton, stresses the industry’s concerns about state aid eligibility in some core markets, in particular trying to ensure that industry-backed SMEs are not excluded from any measures that are being put in place by national governments

Invest Europe has written to the European Commission to request a deferral of the DAC 6 application deadline.

This letter, addressed to ESMA and to DG FISMA (European Commission), asks for supervisory flexibility and a deferral of the AIFMD regulatory reporting deadlines, particularly in light issues on valuations.

With this letter Invest Europe calls the European Commission Executive Vice-President to take actions to protect all businesses, in particular start-ups, from the impact of the coronavirus crisis. The same letter was sent to Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager and Commissioners Paolo Gentilioni & Thierry Breton.

With this letter Invest Europe calls four European Commissioners to take actions to protect all businesses, in particular start-ups, from the impact of the coronavirus crisis.

For the third year in a row, S&P Global Market Intelligence conducted an annual survey among global Private Equity (PE) professionals,[1] this time expanding its outreach to Venture Capital (VC) firms around the world. The study focused on 2020 investment sentiment, the main risks for portfolio companies, preferred investment strategies and exits, and how the PE community is approaching Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) factors.

The current survey reflects a broader range of views on ESG and provides a snapshot of the current thinking among investors in alternatives.

European Central Bank: Contribution by Luis de Guindos, Vice-President of the ECB, on the occasion of the publication of the ECB report on “Financial integration and structure in the euro area”

A summary document of Invest Europe 2019 highlights and achievements across public affairs, professional standards, communications, data & research and events.

Solvency II, officially known as Directive 2009/138/EC on the taking-up and pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance, entered into force on 1st January 2016. It sets out management and supervisory rules for insurance companies.  

"Private equity co-investment funds present a number of attractive performance and risk characteristics. This empirical study explores their outperformance and risk mitigation versus single-manager primary private equity funds."

In 2019, the number of private equity transactions in Europe remained at a very high level. Private equity (PE) is moving from boom to normality, because it generally meets investors' expectations. One of the consequences is an increasingly fierce competition for the most attractive deals. The latest "Private Equity Trend Report 2020" by the auditing and consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) analyses the most important industry developments in the European PE market. 250 European financial investors took part in our survey.

Pantheon: Is a Private Equity manager’s track record a good indicator of future performance? This central question confronts investors every day, and is all the more important in light of the large dispersion in historical returns between top and bottom quartile funds.