PRIVATE EQUITY
Financial investors in Germany have a difficult year behind him, their investments plummeted tremendously. For the current year, but again, they expect better business. Hopes now rest among other IPOs of portfolio companies.
In Germany, international private equity firms like Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) on the road.
FRANKFURT. After the collapse last year, the investment companies for 2010 are cautiously optimistic mood. According to the "Private Equity Outlook 2010" by the industry association BVK expect more than two-thirds of the respondents an increase in investments, almost one in five expects at least a consistent level of investment. The companies also tend to expect stable to slightly declining company valuations.
"The trend has clearly upward," said Association Executive Director Dorte Hoeppner Handelsblatt. The industry has high hopes for their words on the capital needs of SMEs. "Companies have a real financial issue and look for alternatives," added Hoeppner. Also could be the start IPO market to help facilitate the participation of companies to profitable exits from their investments back.
