Investing plays a crucial role in achieving long-term financial goals, such as retirement planning, education funding, or creating wealth. It allows individuals to grow their savings faster than relying solely on income from a job. It involves allocating resources with the aim of generating profitable returns over time. It is an essential strategy to grow wealth, achieve financial objectives, and ensure financial security in the long run.
Founded in the early 1980s, Linxens is the world’s leading manufacturer of connectors for smartcards, used in several applications including banking cards, SIM cards for mobile phones and e-ID cards.
Investment year: 2011
Manufacturing
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Fenergo is the leading provider of Know-Your-Customer (KYC) and Client Lifecycle Management (CLM) software solutions to the world’s largest and most complex financial institutions.
Fenergo’s award winning Enterprise and SaaS products help their customers to fight financial crime and enhance customer experience by digitally transforming and streamlining their end-to-end client lifecycle processes - from regulatory onboarding, data integration, client and counterparty data management, client lifecycle reviews and remediation, all the way to client offboarding.
Investment year: 2021
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Software
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Corialis is a leading European designer and manufacturer of aluminium systems for windows and doors, with a specific focus on the residential and renovation segments.
The company produces profiles and systems for windows and doors, sliding elements, roofs and conservatories and other products such as balustrades and curtain walls.
The company benefits from long-term, secular growth fuelled by the increasing use of aluminium as the eco-friendly material of choice for architectural purposes: unlike competing PVC products, aluminium systems have a longer lifetime and are endlessly recyclable, and thereby help to reduce the environmental footprint of the construction industry.
Unlike its competition, Corialis' manufacturing process is fully vertically integrated on a single site, which allows the company to deliver more rapidly, accurately and at the best cost structure.
Investment year: 2021
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Manufacturing
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CordenPharma is a leading CDMO focused on fast-growing complex niche drug modalities with end to end capabilities from early stage development to commercial large-scale manufacturing.
As a leading contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), CordenPharma serves over 450 biotech and pharma customers globally. Based in Switzerland with manufacturing and R&D sites across Europe and the US, the company operates through five technology platforms: peptides, lipids & carbohydrates, highly potent, injectables and small molecules.
Investment year: 2022
Sustainable development goals
Healthcare IN PORTFOLIO
Xceptor is a global leader within the high growth intelligent data automation space, combining a highly scalable, next generation technology platform with deep financial sector domain expertise.
The Xceptor platform delivers a broad range of capabilities, including data ingestion, data transformation, and process digitisation supported by specialist financial services knowledge, offering their customers the ability to automate their most complex processes.
Investment year: 2021
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Software
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Third Bridge is a leading player in the primary research market, serving over 1,000 private equity funds, hedge funds, mutual funds and management consulting firms.
Third Bridge's primary activities focus on generating interview content and connecting experts with investors to help them make better investment decisions. As part of this, the firm conducts thousands of consultations and interviews every week, providing its clients with viewpoints on companies and markets across the globe.
Investment year: 2021
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Acturis is an award-winning provider of insurance software to the European and North American insurance industry, and one of the UK’s highest rated and fastest growing technology companies.
Acturis offers a multi-tenant SaaS platform providing administration, distribution, and underwriting capabilities to insurers and insurance brokers. Founded in 2000, Acturis are now the UK’s leading commercial e-trade platform, supporting over 20,000 UK brokers.
Investment year: 2019
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Software
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LGC's products form an essential part of its customers' quality assurance procedures and enable organisations to develop and commercialise new scientific products and advance research.
Its products form an essential part of its customers' quality assurance procedures and enable organisations to develop and commercialise new scientific products and advance research. The company serves customers across a number of end markets, including human healthcare, agri-food and environment.
It holds a number of international roles, including the UK Government Chemist for more than 100 years and the UK National Measurement Laboratory and Designated Institute for chemical and bio measurement.
Established in 1842, today LGC employs more than 3,200 people, including many internationally recognised scientific experts in their field.
Investment year: 2020
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Healthcare
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IQ-EQ is a leading investor services group providing a comprehensive range of services to investment funds, global companies, family offices and private clients globally.
IQ-EQ employs a global workforce of 4,750+ people located in 25 jurisdictions and has assets under administration (AUA) exceeding US$750 billion. IQ-EQ works with 15 of the top 20 global private equity firms.
Investment year: 2016
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Aries Alliance is the global leader in advanced metal forming technologies for the aeronautics industry, offering its clients specialized metal forming and milling machines and mission critical parts.
Aries Alliance manufactures metal forming and milling machines as well as hot-formed titanium parts for nacelles, pylons, aircraft fuselages and engine parts. The company addresses leading aircraft and engine manufacturers in Europe, North America and Asia.
The company benefits from strong growth perspectives driven by the global increase in the size of commercial aircraft fleet and a positive aircraft mix effect towards titanium.
Founded in 2000 following the spin-off of Alstom’s metal forming activity, the group employs 330 people across facilities located in Nantes and Grenoble (France) as well as Monroe (United States).
Investment year: 2018
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Aerospace
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Echosens is a specialized diagnostic company providing non-invasive medical devices and services to support physicians in their diagnostic and monitoring of chronic liver diseases.
Echosens has developed a proprietary innovative technology known as Vibration Controlled Transient Elastography enabling to generate precise quantitative measurements of some key liver parameters including liver stiffness, a strong indicator of liver fibrosis and cirrhosis and a physical marker of hepatitis.
Echosens’ FibroScan devices have introduced a breakthrough approach to the diagnosis of hepatitis by providing a non-invasive, easier to use and cost-effective alternative to the biopsy with no risk of complications. Rising prevalence of NASH, a metabolic disease caused by build-up of fat in the liver and resulting in liver inflammation and ultimately fibrosis/ cirrhosis.
Investment year: 2018
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Healthcare IN PORTFOLIO
Sealand is a Maersk company focusing on intra-regional shipping within continents: the Americas, Europe, the Mediterranean and Asia.
Sealand’s network covers 300 ports in 90 countries, supporting the shipment of dry, reefer, special and dangerous goods cargo. Alongside container shipping, Sealand also provides intermodal transport via sea, rail, truck and barge, with value protection to keep your goods covered at all times.
Investment year: 2015
Port and Maritime
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Founded in 1907, Gras Savoye is the leading insurance broker in France with a comprehensive regional and international network.
Gras Savoye, as an insurer of thousands of companies of all sizes, is involved in national and international projects in many different business sectors: personal insurance, property insurance, civil liability, construction, automotive and many other specialist areas.
Investment year: 2009
Insurance Brokerage
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Kerneos (now part of Imerys Aluminates) is the world-leading manufacturer and supplier of calcium aluminate cements (“CAC”).
Investment year: 2014
Speciality Chemicals
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