Market makers: the essential players behind the functioning of financial markets
When discussing financial markets, attention is often focused on investors, hedge funds, or investment banks. However, one category of participants plays an equally essential role, despite being much less known to the general public: market makers.
When discovering private equity, one question often arises: how do funds actually make money? In reality, private equity management companies have several compensation mechanisms, some directly linked to investment performance, while others help finance day-to-day operations
The biggest strategic mistakes in the history of mergers and acquisitions
Mergers and acquisitions are often presented as one of the most powerful ways to accelerate a company's growth. However, history has shown that some of the most ambitious transactions have ended in spectacular failures.
Why hedge funds are increasingly recruiting engineers and data scientists
For a long time, hedge funds mainly recruited candidates from top business schools, finance programs, or economics backgrounds. A solid understanding of financial markets, derivatives, and asset valuation was often enough to build a career within these institutions.
What recruiters really look for on your CV in under 30 seconds
In finance recruitment, whether in investment banking, private equity, or asset management, CV screening is an extremely fast process, and contrary to what many candidates believe, it is rarely a deep analytical review at first glance but rather a rapid filtering exercise designed to answer one simple question: is this profile worth a closer look or not?
Secondary Buyouts: why do funds sell companies to each other?
When a student discovers private equity, one question often comes up: why does an investment fund sell a company to another fund rather than to a strategic buyer or through an IPO? At first glance, this practice may seem strange. Some observers even see it as a simple game of musical chairs between financial investors.
Roll-up, Buy-and-Build, Consolidation: the strategies that transform SMEs into European leaders
When discussing private equity, many people imagine funds investing in already large companies and reselling them a few years later at a profit. However, a significant portion of the value creation generated by funds relies on a very different strategy: sector consolidation. Through roll-up or buy-and-build strategies, investors seek to transform several small businesses into a much larger and more competitive player. This approach has enabled ma