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Ardian, formerly AXA Private Equity, is an independent private equity investment company. It has assets of US $50 billion managed or advised in Europe, North America and Asia.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher=AltAssets )〕 The company operates on four business segments: Funds of Funds, Direct Funds, Infrastructure and Private Debt. Ardian raises money from about 346 investors from various domains (institutional investors, Funds of Funds, government agencies, sovereign funds, family offices, pension funds and insurance companies). Included in its portfolio are Vinci Park, London Luton Airport and SPIE. ==History== Originally a subsidiary of AXA, the company operated under the name AXA Private Equity. It wasn't until 2013, when the firm moved to an independent status, that it changed its name to Ardian. In 1996, Claude Bébéar, founder and former AXA CEO, asked Dominique Senequier to create a private equity entity at AXA. Based in Paris, AXA Private Equity began with 10 clients and 100 million euros of assets. The first investment took place in 1998 in the GSI Banque company Linedata. In 1999, the company went international, opening offices in London and New York. The same year, it launched the Funds of Funds investment strategy.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher=Linedata )〕 In 2001, the company opened an office in Frankfurt〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher=IPE )〕 and grew on the German market. In 2005, the company opened an office in Singapore and became involved in the Asian market.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher=Alt Assets )〕 The same year, AXA Private Equity launched its Infrastructure investment strategy. Due to the financial crisis in 2007, the company postponed all new operations and focused on the management of its portfolio, in an effort to protect its companies from the effects of the crisis. In 2008, Dominique Senequier insisted on distributing a higher percentage of the company's capital gains to the employees of the companies in Ardian's portfolio. In 2009, Ardian acquired 100% of Kallista, a French company specialized in the production of renewable energies. Ardian then invested heavily in transports, energy, water supply and waste management. €2.5 billion were invested in infrastructure systems between 2005 and 2014.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher=IJ Global )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher=CAIA )〕 In 2010, during the increased activity in the private equity secondary market, Ardian acquired a US $1.9 billion private equity portfolio from Bank of America and a US $ 900 million portfolio from Natixis.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher=Think Advisor )〕 In 2012, the company opened an office in Beijing in order to invest on the Chinese market.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher=Private Equity Wire )〕 On 30 September 2013, AXA Private Equity announced that it had completed its spin-off from the AXA Group and renamed the firm Ardian. Per the terms of the deal, AXA Group retained ownership of 23% of the firm, management and employees owned 46%, and the remaining 31% was held by French family offices and institutions. Currently, 85% of employees are shareholders.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher=Alt Assets )〕 In 2013, Private Equity International ranked Ardian in the largest private equity firms by PE capital raised and named it Company of the Year 2013 in France.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Private Equity International Annual Review )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ardian (company)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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