Archinvest: The new private equity access platform
Archinvestthe new gateway to the best in private equity
Paris, October 3, 2022
Émilie Loyer-Buttiaux and Pierre-Olivier Desplanches launch Archinvestan investment platform providing access to a selective, independent offering of top-performing private equity funds.
The genesis of Archinvest
Archinvest is aimed at wealth management advisors and family offices who wish to offer their clients the opportunity to invest in private equity. Archinvest's ambition is to enable them to invest, from as little as 100,000 euros, in a comprehensive range of funds covering all private equity strategies (LBO, Infrastructure, Growth, Private Debt, Real Estate) across all geographies (France, Europe, USA, Israel). The launch of Archinvest marks the acceleration of the Venture Capital co-investment strategy co-founded by Émilie Loyer-Buttiaux (under the name "French Partners"). Over the past 5 years, her team has invested 80 million euros alongside a community of entrepreneurs and Family-Offices, in some 40 promising young companies. Building on this success and the growing appetite of private investors for private equity, Pierre-Olivier Desplanches (LBO investor for 20 years, including 18 years with the Carlyle fund in Paris) and Aymeric Plassard (ex-Director of Finance and Operations at Weinberg Capital, PAI Partners and Quaero) have joined Archinvest to develop these new strategies.
An AMF-approved asset management company since 2022, Archinvest has recently recruited 2 sales managers to support development in France and Europe. Archinvest is also supported by Nicolas Macquin, a long-standing co-investor, as well as several family offices and well-known French entrepreneurs. The management team aims to raise €100 million in its first year of operation, and will personally invest in each of the funds available on the platform. In parallel with this fund distribution activity, Archinvest will continue its historical co-investment activity (SMEs and start-ups).
What makes Archinvest's offer so different?
"While institutional investors have already had significant exposure to private equity (up to 30% of their portfolios) for decades, retail investors and their financial advisors have historically faced barriers to entry, such as minimum investment thresholds and difficulty accessing top-tier managers," says Émilie Loyer-Buttiaux, co-founder of the platform.
TheArchinvest platform now offers exclusive access to the best funds selected from over 5,000 private equity funds worldwide. Thanks to its long experience in the sector, the team is able to identify, rigorously and independently, the world's best managers, such as PAI Partners, Carlyle, Bridgepoint and IK Partners, which are already available on the Archinvest platform.
Archinvest 's offering is built around 3 products: a "Multi-Fonds" product, a "Single Fund" product and a "Co-Investments" product. This comprehensive, open-architecture offering for Wealth Advisors and Family Offices enables them to meet all their clients' needs, starting with an initial commitment of 100,000 euros (or 25,000 euros annually, invested over 4 years).Archinvest has also developed a 100% digital interface dedicated to distributors, enabling them to manage the various stages of the investment process simply and efficiently. Distributors and their clients have access at all times to comprehensive, personalized reporting on their private equity investments.
Towards the Boursorama of responsible and liquid private equity
Aware of the challenges of sustainable finance, theArchinvest team has developed a strong belief in the benefits of responsible investment. "In a regulatory context that is still in its infancy, Archinvest selects funds that have made ESG a central focus of their development. This new analysis criterion has been little used until now by other investment fund distribution platforms," explains Pierre-Olivier Desplanches , co-founder of Archinvest.
In the short term, Archinvest will do its best to offer liquidity solutions to its investors for the duration of their investments. Over time, the densification of the investor base will facilitate and automate the possibility of reselling one's investment lines directly on the Archinvest platform, just as market platforms already do for listed companies.
Private investors' interest in private equity has been growing steadily for several years, thanks to its financial outperformance compared with other asset classes, and its lower volatility than that of listed markets. Thanks to Archinvest, private investors and their financial advisors now have the best possible access to this dynamic asset class, simply and independently.
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About Archinvest
Archinvest is an investment platform providing access to a selective, independent offering of top-performing private equity funds. As an AMF-accredited management company, Archinvest is aimed at wealth management advisors and family offices wishing to offer their clients the opportunity to invest in private equity. Archinvest's ambition is to enable them to invest, from as little as 100,000 euros, in a comprehensive range of funds covering all private equity strategies (LBO, Infrastructure, Growth, Private Debt, Real Estate) across all geographies (France, Europe, USA, Israel).
Archinvest SAS - AMF Approval GP-202221 - 28 Cours Albert 1er 75008 Paris, France
Website: https://www.archinvest.am
E-mail: contact@archinvest.am
