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 14/10/2005 – Agefi Hebdo – Internet puts the smile back on the face of venture capital
"Recent stock exchange listings may perhaps start a craze, but only for high-quality companies with strong growth and profitability," warns Luc Maruenda, Partner at AGF Private Equity.
 05/10/2005 – Meetic hopes to raise 70 million euros
26/09/2005 – no. 850 – Will companies really invest in FCPIs? (Option Finances)
... "FCPIs are a way of encouraging investment in innovative SMEs and attracting new investors who were not naturally drawn to venture capital," believes Christope Bavière, chairman of the AGF Private Equity board and of the AFIC's FCPI committee.
07/07/2005 - Tremplin Entreprises stimulates emerging SMEs
... A key event, co-organised by the Senate and the Essec Business School, with partners including La Tribune and several major names in finance such as (…) AGF Private Equity...
 28/04/2005 - AGF Private Equity launches new fund of funds
...French fund of funds management company AGF Private Equity held a first closing of its new fund of funds, AGF Private Equity Holding Europe IV, at €100m. The target size is €250m.
 22/04/2005 - AGF launches fourth fund
...French fund-of-funds manager AGF Private Equity has launched its fourth fund-of-funds AGF Private Equiy Holding Europe IV. The fund celebrated a first closing in March on €100m ans has a target of €250m
 18/04/2005 - Specialist products in cutting-edge sectors
.."Amounts collected were close to those of 2003," estimates Christophe Bavière, Chairman of the FCPI venture fund committee at the Association française des investisseurs en capital (AFIC - French association of private equity investors).
 15/04/2005 - AGF Private Equity
...the insurer's private equity arm is launching a fourth European FCPR fund managed in the form of a fund of funds, with a target of 250 million euros. A first closing was conducted at the end of March at 100 million euros.
 February 2005 - no. 146 - Private Equity, an X-ray of unquoted investments
..."In private equity, there are no miracles, there is little scope for chance and above all there is the time factor. While the expected performance is often very high, it only becomes clear from the fourth year. During the first three years, the fund manager has to cope with a certain level of loss or only modest appreciation. But it is extremely rare to lose capital through a fund of funds, as the investments are so diversified," adds Christophe Bavière.
17/02/2005 - First sign of recovery of European venture capital
....In Europe, "2005 is showing healthier signs than 2004, and the success of certain fundraising cases, such as the Sofinnova Capital V fund, brightens perspectives for all the other actors. Even if one swallow does not make a summer," qualifies Christophe Bavière, Chairman of the Board at AGF Private Equity ...
10/02/2005 - AGF Private Equity
Jean-François Gallouin is appointed as a venture partner in the venture capital team.
09/02/2005 - Economic correspondence
Jean-François Gallouin, chairman and founder of Métaphora, joins AGF Private Equity as a venture partner in the venture capital team. .
03/02/2005 - Socially responsible investing is making slow but steady progress in the unquoted sector
According to a study carried out by AGF Private Equity, the three fundamental components of socially responsible investing (...) are set to take on greater importance in the strategy of capital investors...
 27/01/2005 - AGF’s Fund investment raises € 180m
AGF Private Equity has closed its European fund o funds with € 180m of commitments.
 24/01/2005 - Serial closures
180 million euros: this is the final value of the AGF Private Equity Holding fund
19/01/2005 - AGF Private Equity announes final €180 m closing of its third European fund of funds
07/01/2005 - AGF Private Equity continues its fundraising exercise
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