Unigestion

Unigestion

Geneva, SwitzerlandEst. 1971166 employeeswww.unigestion.com
$16.52B AUM
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Unigestion is a privately-owned boutique asset manager of Swiss heritage, providing innovative, tailored solutions for investors worldwide. The firm manages circa $11bn of private equity assets, with a focus on midmarket and lower midmarket primary, secondary and co-investment solutions. In addition to a range of top performing funds, the firm has decades of experience running bespoke mandates, which today account for the majority of our overall assets under management. Source: Unigestion, as at June 2024.

Manager news

Unigestion, the independent asset manager specialising in mid-market private equity transactions, has announced seven promotions within its 70-strong global private equity team.

Strategies

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Our Article-8 compliant Directs programme provides global exposure to the market leaders of tomorrow, whose growth is underpinned by long-term trends
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Our secondaries portfolios are designed to deliver an optimised balance of high multiple, high IRR and accelerated cash payback
PrimariesFund of Funds
We have long relationships with established mid-market fund managers and investing in next generation managers has been a focus of our private equity strategy since the 1990s

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