CNP Assurances : has entered the rankings of the top 50 global institutional private equity investors

Paris, 24 September 2015

This year, CNP Assurances has entered the rankings of the top 50 global institutional investors in private equity funds. These rankings, carried out by PEI (Private Equity International), only include 13 Europeans Institutions, only 2 of which are French.

CNP Assurances has entered the rankings of the top 50 biggest global institutional private equity investors. With 3.37 billion dollars (almost 3 billion euros) committed to private equity over the last five years, CNP Assurances now features as one of only two French companies in these rankings compiled by PEI (Private Equity International), the reference media group for the private equity investments industry.

This distinction illustrates the long-term commitment of CNP Assurances, one of France's oldest institutional private equity investors, to the financing of growth companies: its first private equity investments go back to 1992 and, today, in mid-2015, almost 6 billion euros have been committed to almost 300 funds.

Every year, the Group commits between €500M and €700M to this asset class through 25 to 30 operations selected from 350 to 400 opportunities: these include unlisted companies at all stages (start-up, growth, transfer) through funds or co-investment operations.

Over the past few years, CNP Assurances has increased the geographical diversification of its portfolio in Europe and the United States. However, European securities represent 70% of its private equity portfolio, with a high proportion in France.