August is a big month for football. The English Premier League kicked off last night, and in Australia, the quarter finals of the Women’s World Cup take place today. Against this backdrop, it feels like the right time...

Last summer, The MBS Group undertook research to better understand how Covid-19 had impacted the private equity landscape in the consumer-facing sector. Our report – Responding to Covid-19: A new talent landscape, and...

Covid-19 has caused never-before-seen disruption for the hundreds of private equity funds which invest in consumer industries across Europe. During this time, funds have been required to provide huge packages of...

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...