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Private Equity in Australia - Market Research Report (2014-2029)

Matilda Reilly Matilda Reilly Melbourne, Australia Last Updated: August 2024 ANZSIC X0020

Revenue

$935.3m

2024-25

$935.3m

Past 5-Year Growth

Profit

$XXX.Xm

Employees

1,698

Businesses

290

Wages

$XXX.Xm

Private Equity in Australia industry analysis

Private equity (PE) firms have benefited from record-low interest rates at the start of the past five years, allowing for inexpensive financing and increased buyout activity. Accordingly, PE firms have been able to expand their portfolios extensively. Private equities' allure to investors as an alternative class for diversifying portfolios has benefited fund popularity. However, competition from sophisticated and sizable foreign PE firms has limited domestic firms’ performance. Industry revenue is expected to grow at an annualised 8.6% over the five years through 2024-25, to $935.3 million. Asset growth, which can be a more reliable measure of private equity growth, has risen at an annualised 6.4% over the same period.

Trends and Insights

  • Current challenging business conditions are providing private equity firms with an opportunity to scoop up underperforming businesses. PE firms are positioning themselves for desirable capital gains in the future through these acquisitions.
  • Early-stage investments’ popularity has benefited from enthusiasm for tech and related spaces. Venture capital has remained relatively popular despite mounting costs for debt financing.
  • New South Wales and Victoria have the highest proportions of private equity activity. PE firms located in Sydney and Melbourne benefit from proximity to investors and businesses.
  • The larger private equity funds’ dominance, compounded by their ability to leverage their sizable funds for acquisitions, prevents newer entrants from expanding. As a result, the private equity industry is moderately concentrated.

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Industry Statistics and Trends

Market size and recent performance (2014-2029)

Industry revenue has grown at a CAGR of 8.6 % over the past five years, to reach an estimated $935.3m in 2024.

Trends and Insights

Recent increases to interest rates are likely to stymy private equity activity

  • Private equity (PE) firms earn performance and management fees for managing pools of funds raised from investors. Firms may also contribute their own equity to deals, which results in capital gains if the deals are successful.
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Private Equity in Australia
Revenue (2014-2029)
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Industry outlook (2024-2029)

Market size is projected to grow over the next five years.

Trends and Insights

Biggest companies in the Private Equity in Australia

Company
Market Share (%)
2025
Revenue ($m)
2025
Pacific Equity Partners
255.2
BGH Capital
129.9
Archer Capital
58.0

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Products & Services Segmentation

Private Equity in Australia
Products & Services
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Industry revenue is measured across several distinct product and services lines, including Early-stage investments, Late-expansion investments and LBOs, MBOs and MBIs. Early-stage investments is the largest segment of the Private Equity in Australia.

Trends and Insights

Technology firms are attracting the lion's share of early-stage investments

  • Early-stage investments include pre-seed, seed, start-up and early-stage investments, and are dominated by venture capital firms.
  • More insights available in the full report

Table of Contents

About this industry

Industry definition

Private equity firms manage investments in private companies. They may invest their own capital, raise funds from external investors to invest on their behalf, or do both. Investments can include venture and growth capital for emerging companies, as well as buyouts, which involves purchasing a publicly traded company to take it private. Firms earn revenue from external capital management fees and from any gains made on their own investments.

What's included in this industry?

Early-stage investmentsLate-expansion investmentsLBOsMBOsMBIsSecondary purchasesDistressed debt purchases

Companies

Pacific Equity PartnersBGH CapitalArcher Capital

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Related Terms

VENTURE CAPITALCOLLECTIVE INVESTMENT SCHEMEPRIVATE EQUITY FUNDCLOUD COMPUTINGMANAGEMENT BUY-INFINTECHDRY POWDER

Industry Code

ANZSIC 2006

ANZSIC 6411 - Private Equity in Australia

Performance

Get an indication of the industry's health through historical, current and forward-looking trends in the performance indicators that make or break businesses.

Analyst insights

Current challenging business conditions are providing private equity firms with an opportunity to scoop up underperforming businesses. PE firms are positioning themselves for...

In this chapter (4)

  • Current Performance
  • Outlook
  • Volatility
  • Life Cycle

Key metrics

  • Annual Revenue, Recent Growth, Forecast, Revenue Volatility
  • Number of Employees, Recent Growth, Forecast, Employees per Business, Revenue per Employee
  • Number of Businesses, Recent Growth, Forecast, Employees per Business, Revenue per Business
  • Total Profit, Profit Margin, Profit per Business

Charts

  • Revenue, including historical (2014-2023) and forecast (2024-2029)
  • Employees, including historical (2014-2023) and forecast (2024-2029)
  • Businesses, including historical (2014-2023) and forecast (2024-2029)
  • Profit, including historical (2014-2024)
  • Industry Volatility vs. Revenue Growth
  • Industry Life Cycle

Detailed analysis

  • Trends in supply, demand and current events that are driving current industry performance
  • Expected trends, economic factors and ongoing events that drive the industry's outlook
  • Key success factors for businesses to overcome volatility
  • How contribution to GDP, industry saturation, innovation, consolidation, and technology and systems influence the industry's life cycle phase.

Products and Markets

Learn about an industry's products and services, markets and trends in international trade.

Analyst insight

Early-stage investments’ popularity has benefited from enthusiasm for tech and related spaces. Venture capital has remained relatively popular despite mounting costs for debt...

In this chapter

  • Products & Services
  • Major Markets

Key metrics

  • Largest market segment and value in 2024
  • Product innovation level

Charts

  • Products & services segmentation in 2024
  • Major market segmentation in 2024

Detailed analysis

  • Trends impacting the recent performance of the industry's various segments
  • Innovations in the industry's product or service offering, specialization or delivery method
  • Key factors that successful businesses consider in their offerings
  • Buying segments and key trends influencing demand for industry products and services

Geographic Breakdown

Discover where business activity is most concentrated in an industry and the factors driving these trends to find opportunities and conduct regional benchmarking.

Analyst insights

New South Wales and Victoria have the highest proportions of private equity activity. PE firms located in Sydney and Melbourne benefit from proximity to investors and busines...

In this chapter (1)

  • Business Locations

Charts

  • Share of revenue, establishment, wages and employment in each region
  • Share of population compared to establishments in each region in 2024

Tables

  • Number and share of establishments in each region in 2024
  • Number and share of revenue each region accounts for in 2024
  • Number and share of wages each region accounts for in 2024
  • Number and share of employees in each region in 2024

Detailed analysis

  • Geographic spread of the industry across Asia Pacific, and trends associated with changes in the business landscape
  • Key success factors for businesses to use location to their advantage

Competitive Forces

Get data and insights on what's driving competition in an industry and the challenges industry operators and new entrants may face, with analysis built around Porter's Five Forces framework.

Analyst insights

The larger private equity funds’ dominance, compounded by their ability to leverage their sizable funds for acquisitions, prevents newer entrants from expanding. As a result,...

In this chapter (4)

  • Concentration
  • Barriers to Entry
  • Substitutes
  • Buyer & Supplier Analysis

Key metrics

  • Industry concentration level
  • Industry competition level and trend
  • Barriers to entry level and trend
  • Substitutes level and trend
  • Buyer power level and trend
  • Supplier power level and trend

Charts

  • Market share concentration among the top 4 suppliers from 2019-2024
  • Supply chain including upstream supplying industries and downstream buying industries, flow chart

Detailed analysis

  • Factors impacting the industry’s level of concentration, such as business distribution, new entrants, or merger and acquisition activity.
  • Key success factors for businesses to manage the competitive environment of the industry.
  • Challenges that potential industry entrants face such as legal, start-up costs, differentiation, labor/capital intensity and capital expenses.
  • Key success factors for potential entrants to overcome barriers to entry.
  • Competitive threats from potential substitutes for the industry’s own products and services.
  • Key success factors for how successful businesses can compete with substitutes.
  • Advantages that buyers have to keep favorable purchasing conditions.
  • Advantages that suppliers have to maintain favorable selling conditions.
  • Key success factors for how businesses can navigate buyer and supplier power.

Companies

Learn about the performance of the top companies in the industry.

Analyst insights

Very few domestic private equity funds have crossed the billion dollar-plus milestone. The exclusive club includes funds managed by PEP, Archer Capital and Quadrant Private E...

In this chapter

  • Market Share Concentration
  • Companies
  • Company Spotlights

Charts

  • Industry market share by company in 2020 through 2024
  • Major companies in the industry, including market share, revenue, profit and profit margin in 2024
  • Overview of Pacific Equity Partners's performance by revenue, market share and profit margin from 2018 through 2024
  • Overview of BGH Capital's performance by revenue, market share and profit margin from 2018 through 2024
  • Overview of Archer Capital's performance by revenue, market share and profit margin from 2018 through 2024
  • Overview of revenue, market share and profit margin trend for 3 additional companies

Detailed analysis

  • Description and key data for Pacific Equity Partners, and factors influencing its performance in the industry
  • Description and key data for BGH Capital, and factors influencing its performance in the industry
  • Description and key data for Archer Capital, and factors influencing its performance in the industry
  • Description, key data and performance trends for 3 additional companies

External Environment

Understand the demographic, economic and regulatory factors that shape how businesses in an industry perform.   

Analyst insights

The FIRB has tightened its application conditions and raise its fees in recent years. These behaviours are expected to discourage some foreign PE firms from competing with do...

In this chapter

  • External Drivers
  • Regulation & Policy
  • Assistance

Key metrics

  • Regulation & policy level and trend
  • Assistance level and trend

Charts

  • Regulation & Policy historical data and forecast (2014-2029) 
  • Assistance historical data and forecast (2014-2029) 

Detailed analysis

  • Demographic and macroeconomic factors influencing the industry, including Regulation & Policy and Assistance
  • Major types of regulations, regulatory bodies, industry standards or specific regulations impacting requirements for industry operators
  • Key governmental and non-governmental groups or policies that may provide some relief for industry operators.

Financial Benchmarks

View average costs for industry operators and compare financial data against an industry's financial benchmarks over time. 

Analyst insights

Increases to assets have resulted in improved margins as well. PE firms that’ve managed increasingly large portfolios have been able to achieve economies of scale, driving up...

In this chapter

  • Cost Structure
  • Financial Ratios
  • Key Ratios

Key metrics

  • Profit margin, and how it compares to the sector-wide margin
  • Average wages, and how it compares to the sector-wide average wage
  • Largest cost component as a percentage of revenue
  • Industry average ratios for days' receivables, industry coverage and debt-to-net-worth ratio

Charts

  • Average industry operating costs as a share of revenue, including purchases, wages, depreciation, utilities, rent, other costs and profit in 2024
  • Average sector operating costs as a share of revenue, including purchases, wages, depreciation, utilities, rent, other costs and profit in 2024
  • Investment vs. share of economy

Data tables

  • Cash Flow & Debt Service Ratios (2014-2029)
  • Revenue per Employee (2014-2029)
  • Revenue per Enterprise (2014-2029)
  • Employees per Establishment (2014-2029)
  • Employees per Enterprise (2014-2029)
  • Average Wage (2014-2029)
  • Wages/Revenue (2014-2029)
  • Establishments per Enterprise (2014-2029)
  • IVA/Revenue (2014-2029)
  • Imports/Demand (2014-2029)
  • Exports/Revenue (2014-2029)

Detailed analysis

  • Trends in the cost component for industry operators and their impact on industry costs and profitability 

Key Statistics

Industry Data

Data Tables

Including values and annual change:

  • Revenue (2014-2029)
  • IVA (2014-2029)
  • Establishments (2014-2029)
  • Enterprises (2014-2029)
  • Employment (2014-2029)
  • Exports (2014-2029)
  • Imports (2014-2029)
  • Wages (2014-2029)

Top Questions Answered

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What is the market size of the Private Equity industry in Australia in 2024?

The market size of the Private Equity industry in Australia is $935.3m in 2024.

How many businesses are there in the Private Equity in Australia industry in 2024?

There are 290 businesses in the Private Equity industry in Australia, which has grown at a CAGR of 3.3 % between 2019 and 2024.

Has the Private Equity industry in Australia grown or declined over the past 5 years?

The market size of the Private Equity industry in Australia has been growing at a CAGR of 8.6 % between 2019 and 2024.

What is the forecast growth of the Private Equity industry in Australia over the next 5 years?

Over the next five years, the Private Equity industry in Australia is expected to grow.

What are the biggest companies in the Private Equity market in Australia?

The biggest companies operating in the Private Equity market in Australia are Pacific Equity Partners, BGH Capital and Archer Capital

What does the Private Equity in Australia include?

Early-stage investments and Late-expansion investments are part of the Private Equity industry.

Which companies have the highest market share in the Private Equity in Australia?

The company holding the most market share in Australia is Pacific Equity Partners.

How competitive is the Private Equity industry in Australia?

The level of competition is moderate and increasing in the Private Equity industry in Australia.

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Competitors

  • Investment Banking and Securities Brokerage in Australia
  • Funds Management Services in Australia

Complementors

  • Custody, Trustee and Stock Exchange Services in Australia
  • Superannuation Funds Management Services in Australia
  • Management Consulting in Australia

International industries

  • Private Equity, Hedge Funds & Investment Vehicles in the US
  • Financial Asset Investing in New Zealand
  • Private Equity in the UK

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What data sources do IBISWorld analysts use?

Each industry report incorporates data and research from government databases, industry-specific sources, industry contacts, and our own proprietary database of statistics and analysis to provide balanced, independent and accurate insights.

Key data sources in Australia include:

  • Australian Bureau of Statistics
  • Australian Taxation Office
  • Australian Securities & Investments Commission

Analysts also use industry specific sources to complement catch-all sources, although their perspective may focus on a particular organization or representative body, rather than a clear overview of all industry operations. However, when balanced against other perspectives, industry-specific sources provide insights into industry trends.

These sources include:

  • Industry and trade associations
  • Industry federations or regulators
  • Major industry players annual or quarterly filings

Finally, IBISWorld’s global data scientists maintain a proprietary database of macroeconomic and demand drivers, which our analysts use to help inform industry data and trends. They also maintain a database of statistics and analysis on thousands of industries, which has been built over our more than 50-year history and offers comprehensive insights into long-term trends.

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