Just like the British weather, market sentiment with regard to the European monetary system is constantly changing. Never as fair as we wish for or as stormy as we fear. The optimism which drove the European markets’ recovery in the first three months of the year, helped by the money pumped into the financial system by the ECB, has disappeared along with March’s un-seasonally warm and dry spell. Read more.
Guy Hands’ View
Archive for the ‘private equity’ Category
Good practice
The group which monitors the Walker guidelines for private equity-backed businesses published its annual review of Walker report disclosures last week.
Diversity of thinking
I was intrigued to read the recent article in PE News “Gender equality could be answer to private equity’s woes” Read more.
Increasing transparency
As an asset class, we have come very far, very fast and this has resulted in some misunderstanding and mistrust of what we do. Read more.
Bloomberg clean energy award
I was delighted to hear that Terra Firma was confirmed as the leading Venture Capital and Private Equity investor in the Bloomberg clean energy league table in 2011. Read more.
Happy New Year?
As we look ahead to 2012 one question dominates political and economic debate, ‘What will happen to the Euro?’ Read more.
DAIG/Deutsche Telecom
In my last blog, I said that having a long-term perspective is important in these challenging economic times. Short-cuts to wealth creation have all but disappeared and firms now need to be willing to put in the time, effort and resources to transform businesses in a low growth environment. Read more.
Back to basics for private equity
Welcome to the inaugural Terra Firma blog.
I have found myself reflecting during the last year on the state of the
private equity industry and what we have learnt, or should have learnt,
from the past decade. Read more.