"We are currently focused on carrying out our first operations, and on demonstrating the relevance of our positioning."
WeInvest was able to impose a team and a very entrepreneurial vision of private equity, a strong bet from the start?
In effect. As always, there are several perspectives to approach an environment. Private Equity is no exception. The entrepreneurial impetus that we have given to this project aims to bring an innovative dimension to a very elitist sector. We remain humble about our ambitions, however we like to believe that bringing a touch of innovation to the sector is in the interests of all parties. And it seems that the first collection results confirm this.
First time team, first time fund, and a first rather quick success in the end...
Lots of preparation to get such a fast execution. The project we initiated dates back nearly 5 years if we go back to the beginnings. A lot of discussions, of perfecting an idea which was basically very different, and precisely a little more classic in its conception.
The current context reinforces the attractiveness of real estate, like private equity - the holy grail to secure your assets?
If only the holy grail existed… real estate, private equity, listed shares… it is important to be well diversified and to ensure that each asset you hold meets a goal you have set for yourself . As far as we are concerned, the choice of real estate responds to a concern to play a defensive scenario, by investing its liquidities in “real” assets. It is true that the current context puts real estate back in the spotlight, both in terms of finding places where it is "good to live", the importance of which we have seen following the COVID-19 pandemic, and in term of protecting its liquidity against inflation, which is becoming a concern in the current context.
The market is still becoming more and more competitive, how to maintain this level of performance?
Performance can only be assessed in relation to the risks you accept to take. The more risk you take, the higher your performance expectations can be. The key is to fully understand what links this return to these risks. We seek to secure performance as much as possible while accepting to take a certain level of risk, and therefore ultimately, our job consists of managing these risks. Competition in itself is beneficial, because it forces you to constantly put the business back to work and not to rest on your laurels.
Your offer is also set to evolve, as are the segments that can benefit from it?
There are several avenues for strategic development for a company like ours. Timing is also very important. We are currently focused on carrying out our first operations, and on demonstrating the relevance of our positioning. The first results that we are going to communicate to our investors seem to confirm our approach.