Ethan Vogelhut, Head of Buyout Investments Americas, Schroder Adveq discusses the opportunity in small buyouts and how this specialized private equity approach can capture more alpha.
Schroder Adveq, a subsidiary of Schroders, is global asset manager specializing in private equity investments. The firm, managing roughly $10 billion in assets, aims to provide institutional clients with access to the most attractive segments of the private market. The global manager takes a full lifecycle approach to private equity, leveraging a team of specialists to identify opportunities in venture, growth capital, small and mid buyouts, and turnarounds
The Schroder Adveq U.S. strategy zeros in on small and mid buyout opportunities in North America. Historically, the U.S. buyout market has delivered strong performance, presenting investors with a diverse universe of companies at attractive valuations and transformation potential. Vogelhut says that specialization and delivering value through transformation is the key to outperformance in small buyouts.
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Topics include:
- An overview of the US buyout market landscape.
- A specialized approach to capturing private equity alpha.
- Why small buyouts tend to outperform and how bigger isn’t always better.
- Ways to take advantage of the opportunities as the market emerges through COVID.
Ethan is the head of the Adveq Opportunity program and leads Schroder Adveq’s US buyout & turnaround investment activities across primary funds, secondaries, and co-investments.
Before joining Schroder Adveq in 2010, Ethan worked on the restructuring of Vertis Communications, a private equity portfolio company of Avenue Capital. From 2008 to 2009, Ethan was an associate at Linley Capital, a New York-based private equity firm focused on middle market buyouts. Ethan was also a manager of finance at Viacom, Inc. from 2004 to 2006. He completed the investment banking analyst program at Bank of America Securities in New York from 2001 to 2003 where he provided financial and advisory services to companies and financial sponsors in the retail and consumer industries.