Rapport intégré Ardian 2022

Interview with Dominique Senequier

Geopolitical and economic shocks, notably the war in Ukraine, made the past year a challenging one for investors and tested the resilience of our economies and societies. But alongside risks, the complex and changing situation brought opportunities. Dominique Senequier, President of Ardian, discusses the outlook with Thierry de Montbrial, President of IFRI, the leading French international relations thinktank.

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Our key figures As of December 31, 2022

$6.6bn distributed to our investors in 2022

$27.5bn nraised in 2022

4 investors

$25.5bn distributed to our investors in 2021

Governance

Looking ahead
to Ardian’s second decade

François-Aïssa Touazi, who oversees our activities in Abu Dhabi, discusses Ardian’s record of building strong relationships with sovereign wealth funds and institutional investors in the Middle East and the next phase of our growth plans in the region.

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How will we ensure growth over the next ten years?

Our approach

An investment strategy based on responsibility

Ardian is a cautious, long-term investor. We invest in companies and acquire real assets, and then use our expertise to help them improve their operational performance and become more resilient by identifying concrete actions that will deliver more sustainable profitability.

We are expanding our commitment to value sharing

As an entrepreneurial company with many employee shareholders, we know from experience that value sharing is a powerful way to align interests and unite people in pursuit of common goals.

value sharing

An investment strategy based on responsibility

Investment Solutions & Activities

Ardian’s aim is to help each client find the best way to achieve their investment objectives using private market assets. The breadth of our offering is a vital part of the solutions that we deliver, spanning our own funds and Ardian’s privileged access to primary fundraisings by other leading sponsors globally.

INTERVIEW WITH CANDICE BRENET

We are ready to meet the transformation challenge

Aligning our investment portfolios with Ardian’s sustainability goals in a world that is constantly moving requires us to implement changes at unprecedented speed. We are investing faster than ever to develop the skills, knowledge and tools that we need to achieve our ambitions.

Supporting the youngest children

In 2022, we spent €3.2 million supporting 49 charities in 10 countries that promote social mobility for children and young people.

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Our investment solutions

Ardian Customized Solutions

A record fundraising year for Customized Solutions

Private Wealth Solutions

Demand for private market opportunities surges

Our pillars

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Business model

At Ardian, we invest all of ourselves in building companies that last.

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Our sustainability strategy stands on three pillars

Diversity & Equal Opportunities

We promote equality of opportunity and collective rewards for collective efforts in Ardian, in our portfolio companies and, through them, in society at large.

Climate

We are reducing our own and our portfolio companies’ carbon emissions and investing in renewables and clean energy technologies.

Impact

We want to support our companies and sponsors to contribute positively and make the changes that a more sustainable future will demand.

Our case studies

How we helped Staci shape an ambitious ESG strategy

Our Buyout team acquired a majority stake in Staci, a specialist logistics provider, in 2019. Since then, we have worked with the board to set up an Impact Committee, agreed an ESG strategy that establishes targets for 2025 and incorporated ESG KPIs into the CEO’s incentive scheme.

Developing people policies that boost success

Opteven is a roadside assistance company and an insurance provider that has operations in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK. The Expansion team acquired a majority stake in 2018 and identified access to talent and employee wellbeing as key sustainability issues for the company.

Targeting carbon neutrality in energy production by 2030

Since acquiring the district heating and integrated utilities company in January 2021, the Ardian Infrastructure team has supported Nevel to significantly reduce its annual carbon emissions from across the 130+ energy production sites and 40+ district heating networks that the company operates in Finland, Sweden and Estonia.

#WeInvestInYou

Our employer brand is expressed in the promise "we invest in you".

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Interview with François-Aïssa Touazi

Abu Dhabi:
a gateway between Europe and the Middle East

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We are creating a dedicated company-wide data science team that will make data analysis a much more integral part of the way we work with our portfolio companies. By collecting and analyzing more non-financial data, we believe we can find new ways to improve performance.