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Private equity on cliff edge due to trade war, rising rates: EQT

Climbing interest rates will make it difficult for the private equity industry to raise capital, and Trump's trade war on China is much more harmful than we think. Stockholm-based private equity fund EQT is expecting the worst, according to Thomas von Koch, CEO and managing partner.
The trade war has done much more damage than we read about in the Financial Times, according to Thomas von Koch, CEO at EQT. | Photo: PR
The trade war has done much more damage than we read about in the Financial Times, according to Thomas von Koch, CEO at EQT. | Photo: PR
CARSTEN STENO

The future looks bleak ­ for private equity funds, at least. So says Thomas von Koch, CEO and managing partner in Stockholm-based private equity fund, EQT, which is controlled by the Wallenberg family.

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