Category: Insights

A $3.6 trillion overhang. Frozen IPO pipelines. A record $240 billion market emerging to fill the gap. Here is what the secondaries surge really means – and where it goes next. $240B 2025 Global Secondary Volume 48% YoY Growth 2024→2025 $302B Dedicated Dry Powder (mid-2025) $300B Projected Market Size by 2030 The Exit Breakdown: Why…

Introduction Over the past decade, the private equity (PE) industry has entered a fundamentally different phase of value creation. What was once supported by leverage, favourable financing conditions, and multiple expansion has increasingly shifted toward operational value creation as the primary source of returns. As capital has become more expensive and exit timelines have lengthened,…

Executive Summary Organizations invest significant effort in defining group-level strategy. The value of this effort is realised only when strategic direction is reflected in day-to-day decisions and actions across the organization. When this translation is done well, daily operations naturally align with organizational priorities, enabling consistent execution and better use of management attention. When it…

The Future Is Now Remember when companies waited weeks or even months to know how they were doing financially? Those days are over. Real-time financial reporting has fundamentally changed the game, giving organizations instant access to their financial data the moment transactions happen. Thanks to massive advances in data engineering, analytics, and machine learning, finance…

Management consulting has always operated in a world of complexity. Traditionally, firms relied on human intellect and structured frameworks to parse ambiguous problems, synthesise data and deliver recommendations. But the next chapter of consulting is being written by AI that not only generates content but acts on it. Agnetic AI systems autonomous software agents that…

Executive summary Saudi Arabia’s real estate sector is moving into a new normal for the cost of capital. For investors, this is journey from years of affordable money, through a period of sharp tightening, to more balanced but structurally more expensive capital landscape. Before 2020, global interest rates were at historic lows, liquidity was abundant,…

Introduction: The Evolution of SaaS and its investor appeal The Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model has revolutionized the delivery and consumption of software, shifting the paradigm from perpetual licensing to recurring subscriptions. This transition has reshaped the enterprise software landscape, enabling rapid scalability, predictable revenue streams, and global reach. This has also drawn intense interest from investors…

Introduction: The New Tariff-Driven Investment Landscape In early 2025, the United States introduced a sweeping set of tariff measures that marked a turning point for global markets. New U.S. trade rules imposed 25% duties on most goods from Mexico and Canada and an additional 10% tariff on all imports from China, while ongoing investigations under…

Introduction: A Landmark Moment in Economic Transformation In January 2025, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia introduced a landmark reform that marked a turning point in its economic liberalization agenda. For the first time in the nation’s modern history, foreign investors were permitted to acquire up to 49% equity in real estate companies and Real Estate…

Introduction Saudi Arabia’s real estate market has traditionally been dominated by public sector investments. However, the growing need for efficiency, innovation, and shared financial responsibility has led to the rise of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs), redefining the landscape of real estate investment and development. A Public-Private Partnership (PPP) is a collaborative long-term contractual agreement between government…