Private equity firms have more cash than ever before. The success of the asset class over the past five decades and the increasing difficulty of generating impressive returns in the conventional financial markets have...

‘Ethical’, while not a dirty word in business, certainly has some way to go to rehabilitate its reputation in the corporate community. Though CSR initiatives and departments have multiplied in recent years, the fact...

As part of my research for our latest white paper on the case for gender diversity in private equity, I spoke with Jennifer Dunstan, founder of Level 20, to talk about how the industry can, should, and is changing to...

At the SuperReturn conference in Berlin in 2017, Advent International managing director James Brocklebank got up on stage to declare ‘There not enough women in the industry’. Indeed, in 2017 the number of women in...

Fever-Tree began, as many great companies do, in a pub. Founders Tim Warrillow and Charles Rolls had been put in contact by a mutual acquaintance and though they were supposed to talk about gin, the subject that really...

Yoga isn’t just yoga anymore; it’s hot yoga, aerial yoga and yin yoga. There’s even face yoga, laughter yoga and circus yoga, whatever they are!  Likewise, pilates can come in a dizzying array of shapes and...

This year's edition of Decoded Fashion took place in Milan with the theme 'Digital Diversity & The Connected Consumer'. It was the event's fourth edition in the city, solidifying Milan's renaissance as a fashion and...

To the uninitiated, the prospect of a CEO role in a private equity portfolio company can be appealing and intimidating in equal measure. The potential for greater reward is real, but just as much is the risk of failure,...

In 2010, the world lost one of the greatest fashion designers, entrepreneurs and retailers, Joseph Ettedgui who died aged 74. What a legacy he left to us all, especially those of us who live in London. In the early...