Capital Dynamics (global asset manager)

Capital Dynamics (also known as CapDyn) is an independent global asset management firm focusing on private assets including private equity, private credit, and clean energy infrastructure. Capital Dynamics offers a diversified range of tailored offerings and customized solutions for a broad, global client base, including corporations, family offices, foundations and endowments, high net worth individuals, pension funds and others. The firm oversees more than USD 17 billion in assets under management and advisement.[1]

Capital Dynamics
TypePrivate
IndustryPrivate equity, private credit, clean energy infrastructure
Founded1988
HeadquartersZug, Switzerland
ProductsDirect investments, primary fund investments, secondary fund investments, clean energy and infrastructure investments, structured products and separate accounts
AUMmore than USD 17 billion [1]
Number of employees
approximately 160 professionals globally

Capital Dynamics’ roots go back to 1988, the year our predecessor (Westport Private Equity) was founded in the UK. Our headquarters were established in Zug, Switzerland in 1999. The firm employs approximately 160 professionals globally and maintains offices in New York, London, Paris, Tokyo, Hong Kong, San Francisco, Munich, Milan, Birmingham, Dubai and Seoul.

[1] As of June 30, 2020

Key people
  • Thomas Kubr - founding Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Executive Chairman of the Board
  • Martin Hahn - current Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Head of Business Development and Chairman of the Executive Committee
  • John Gripton – Senior Managing Director and Chairman of the Private Equity Investment Committee
  • Angela Willetts - Managing Director, Co-Chair of Responsible Investment Committee
  • Andrew Bernstein – Senior Managing Director, Co-Head of Private Equity and member of the Private Equity Investment Committee as well as the Executive Committee
  • John Breckenridge – Senior Managing Director, Head of Energy Infrastructure and member of the Executive Committee
  • George Georgiou - Managing Director and member of the Executive Committee
  • Harald Zeiter - Senior Managing Director, Group General Counsel, Head of Legal and Compliance and member of the Executive Committee
  • Jens Ernberg - Managing Director, Co-head of Private Credit, member of the Private Credit Investment Committee as well as the Executive Committee
  • Thomas Hall - Managing Director, Co-head of Private Credit, member of the Private Credit Investment Committee as well as the Executive Committee
  • Hina Ahmad – Managing Director, Chief Operating Officer (COO) and member of the Executive Committee

Specialties

Capital Dynamics developed proprietary portfolio risk management methodologies that have been adopted by rating agencies Moody's and Standard & Poor's for evaluating risk and collateral requirements for securities collateralized by private equity. In addition, the firm has developed a number of proprietary patented benchmarking and performance-measurement models used to quantitatively evaluate private equity portfolios such as Public Market Equivalent Plus (PME+). PME+ provides a comparison with public markets by comparing the performance of a private equity portfolio to the public market, as represented by the performance of a given public index.

References
    1. Another Firm Jumps Into Private Credit(Institutional Investor, September 2017)
    2. The 100 Most Influential of the Decade, Tom Kubr (Private Equity International, Page 6, 2011)
    3. Major Firms Join Forces to Form the AltExchange Alliance for the Private Equity Industry (AltExchange, May 2013)
    4. FN 40 Under 40 Rising Stars of Private Equity (Financial News, April 2014)
    5. Method and system for modeling and benchmarking private equity and applications of same US 7698196 B1 (Google Patents, April 2012)
    6. FN 40 Under 40 Rising Stars of Private Equity (Financial News, May 2013)
    7. Industry heavy hitters strike again (Financial News, September 2011)
    8. Capital Dynamics’ emulated methods help deliver prize (Private Equity News, October 2008)
    9. 2013 Sandro Buttaci Memorial Award for the Young Compliance Officer of the Year Traci Pham, Vice President, Capital Dynamics (Thomson Reuters, November 2013)
    10. Value Creation in Private Equity - New joint research findings from the Technical University of Munich and Capital Dynamics (Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, 2014)
    11. New Strategies for Risk Management in Private Equity (Private Equity International, May 2014)
    12. Team Stability and Performance in Private Equity (London Business School’s Coller Institute of Private Equity, October 2013)
    13. Value Creation in Danish Private Equity (Danish Venture Capital Association, May 2011)
    14. Value Creation in Private Equity, New CEFS study on value creation drivers in private equity transactions (Center for Entrepreneurial and Financial Studies at the Technical University of Munich, October 2009)
    15. Private equity’s love affair with leverage (Financial Times Fund Management, October 2009)
    16. Responsible Investment: A guide for private equity and venture capital firms, Page 1 (British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association, 2012)
    17. Europe’s Most Influential PE Fund Managers (Deal Market Digest on Private Equity News’ Survey Results, September 2012)
    18. "Capital's Dynamic Earth plan gets Glasgow airing". The Scotsman. Archived from the original on 2016-02-04.
    19. "United States : Capital Dynamics Invests over USD 280 Million in US Solar Energy Projects". Mena Report. Archived from the original on 2016-02-04.
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