Knowledge & Insights

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Recent or widely read articles featuring Patria and our clients.

Healthcare

Driving Healthcare Innovation: Private Equity’s Role in the Tech Revolution

The current UN projections suggest that people aged 80 or over will outnumber infants by the mid-2030s. This inevitable acceleration in the pace of global ageing will consume further resources, stretch dependency ratios and ultimately significantly inflate the cost of healthcare delivery globally.

Macroeconomic One Pager

Commodity prices are up again. Why?

An environment featuring higher-for-longer global interest rates is particularly inhospitable to alternative assets. Their net present value is lower because of a higher discount factor, this being precisely the negative wealth effect that is one of the results of a tighter monetary policy, which aims at slowing the domestic absorption of goods and services to bring inflation down.

Power & Energy

Power and Energy:A Primer

The growth of human population, the evolution of its living standards, and most changes impacting the global environment over millennia are highly correlated to energy capture. Because the First Law of Thermodynamics rules that there is no creation or destruction of energy, only conversion from one form to another, it is technically more accurate to speak of energy capture than of generation and consumption of energy, which is the common parlance.

Agribusiness

Agribusiness: A Primer

Agribusiness, now a popular theme, is not a rebranding of the somewhat archaic term agriculture, livestock, forestry, and fisheries, as it still appears in national accounts statistics. Indeed, they are different concepts, to the extent that the former contains the latter.