Thought Leadership

At a recent Jefferies luncheon on “Beyond the Hype: Practical AI for Buy-side Decision Making,” senior leaders across finance and technology gathered to explore how AI is reshaping investment decision-making. The discussion focused on how generative AI is reshaping investor workflows, which platforms are emerging as leaders, and where adoption still hits friction. This article

As enthusiasm returns in force to the healthcare sector, investors and C-Suite executives from leading public and private companies around the globe will gather at the Jefferies Global Healthcare Conference in London from November 17th through the 20th. Over the course of the week, thousands of investor and company meetings will take place amongst industry

Last week, SMBC and Jefferies co-hosted a forum for senior executives from leading Japanese corporations and investment firms. The event built on Jefferies’ Sustainability and Transition team’s longstanding collaboration with Japanese leaders to unlock opportunities in the country’s climate investing and decarbonization journey.

It is difficult to overstate the significance of the rise of artificial intelligence for capital markets. The massive scale of current AI investments and the rapid pace of technological progress raise questions and increase stakes for nearly all investors, companies, and countries as they try to anticipate what the future holds.

Crafting a narrative is a medium that transcends the entertainment industry. While the shift from media executive to entrepreneur and investor is one with many parallels across roles, few have succeeded in leveraging both lenses as aptly as Jeffrey Katzenberg.

The venture capital ecosystem has undergone a structural shift. As venture-backed companies have opted to remain private for longer, distributions for fund limited partners (LPs) have become increasingly constrained. This liquidity bottleneck has prompted general partners (GPs) to explore alternative solutions – chief among them, GP-led secondary transactions.

Until recently, sponsors investing in real assets sectors were slower to adopt continuation vehicles to deliver liquidity for their limited partners. Things are different today: sponsors are increasingly tapping the secondary market not only to generate liquidity solutions for their energy, real estate, and infrastructure assets, but also to achieve their long-term strategic objectives.

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Both sponsors and strategics are eager to transact, and with the right conditions, many expect activity to pick up. The question is whether recent volatility will get in the way.