Operator
Welcome to the Eurazeo 2026 half-year results presentation. Today's conference will be hosted by William Kadouch-Chassaing, Co-CEO, and Christophe Bavière, Co-CEO.
For the first part of the conference, the participants will be on listen-only mode. During the questions-and-answers session, you may ask in two ways: by submitting a written question in the box below the player or by joining the conference call and dial pound key 5 on your telephone keypad to enter the queue.
Now I will hand the conference over to the speaker. Please go ahead.
William Kadouch-Chassaing
Thank you very much. Good morning.
Thank you for joining this call. Christophe and I are pleased to welcome you to our 2026 half-year results presentation.
Our presentation will be in three parts. First, I will share with you the financial highlights for H1.
Second, Christophe will focus on fundraising, commercial dynamic, and asset rotation. Third and last, I will detail our financial results.
We will then be available to take questions. We publish a good set of results for the first year, for the first half of 2026, showing further progress in the execution of our strategic plan.
Let me share the key highlights for H1. First, asset management post another semester of solid growth.
Fundraising stands at €2.3 billion with some notable closings in PE and debt, confirming the attractiveness of our franchises to clients. We continue to demonstrate our ability to scale our flagship strategies.
Christophe will come back to this in a moment. As a result, we continue to grow our earnings with management fees from third parties up 14%, EBITDA gross of 20%, and strong growth in operating cash flows as we grow our third-party fees and performance fees start to materialize more meaningfully.
Second, our balance sheet returned, as announced, to positive value creation in H1 with a growth of +2.3% per share. Realizations continue to be on plan with a good pipeline of exits expected for the rest of 2026, allowing us to reshape the business model as per our strategic plan.
Third and last, we are on track to deliver the announced €2.3 billion in shareholder return by the end of 2027. We have already returned €1.3 billion since the beginning of 2024.
In 2026, we have already distributed a dividend per share increasing by 10% and executed half of the share buyback program for the year.
Christophe Bavière
Thank you, William. Let's now dig into details.
As the development of an asset management platform starts with good fundraising. Eurazeo raised €2.3 billion from clients in H1 2026, ahead of last year's already strong performance.
This is, we'd say, particularly encouraging given a challenging environment for fundraising. No doubt this success highlights the quality of Eurazeo's franchises as well as the relevance of Eurazeo's positioning as a European mid-market, growth, and impact-focused investment firm.
Our strategy is to be the go-to investment firm for this deep and growing investment universe, mid-market companies all over Europe. We had several marquee successes in H1 with, in particular, the final close of EPDI 7 in direct lending, the final close of ESF 5 in secondaries, the first close of PME V in buyout, and successes also in thematic funds such as Kurma Biofund number 4 and ESMI 2.
Wealth solutions channel continues to deliver despite a more competitive and challenging market backdrop. One of the keys to Eurazeo's success in the development of its asset management platform is its ability to scale existing flagship franchises.
Let me guide you through clear example of how this works. Look at direct lending.
The size of our more recent program, EPDI number 7, increased by 70%, 7-0, 70% at €5.5 billion, driven by its leadership position and strong performance of the strategy focused on the lower mid-market. Look at secondaries.
Our fifth program more than doubled at €2.3 billion with growth both on the institutional flagship fund and in wealth and mandate solutions. Note that for these two programs, demand has exceeded the hard cap, which is quite unique in current market conditions for fundraising.
Look at the lower mid-market buyout segment. Eurazeo is currently raising its fifth vintage, PME V, and we have good traction among investors thanks to the strong performance of the previous vintages.
The first closing of this fifth vintage has already exceeded the final closing of the fourth vintage with, I would say, plenty of room to grow further. In our strategic roadmap, William and I outlined our ambition to further expand our client franchise through the internationalization of the LP base.
In recent years, we have extended our coverage in Europe, in the Middle East, and in Asia. The results are there.
Around 70% of our inflows are now coming from outside of France. A growing share of this fundraising is coming from outside of Europe with repeated successes all around Asia as we are signing new clients in China, in Korea, and in Japan.
Our wealth solution franchises also continues to grow at a steady pace with now €6 billion of AUM, a 17% CAGR for the past five years. Yes, our flagship evergreen fund, EPVO3, surpassed seven, €3.7 billion in AUM thanks to the positive inflows.
In parallel, we are actively working with our partners to distribute our new international evergreen funds all over Europe. For the rest of the year.
For the rest of the year, Eurazeo will pursue on its fundraising on the back of a solid and diversified pipeline, both on the institutional side as well as on the wealth segment. As you can see, our funds are at different stages in their fundraising.
We continue to raise on our flagship Eurazeo Growth number 4 and PME V, and we have many thematic funds on the road like EPBF, ESMI 2, Future Industry 3, [Ezore?] , and ETIS number 2.
Let me now turn to deployments and realizations. Eurazeo deployments amounted to €1.9 billion in H1, down 17% for the same period of last year with transactions reflecting an expanding pan-European investment approach.
Main deals include in Denmark EPBF, Eurazeo through the EPBF team acquired Tier1A, a leading electronic recycling firm; in Germany, Eurazeo through PME V bought Nextron, a leading cybersecurity software firm; and in France through capital, Eurazeo has invested in Netco, a conveyor belt maintenance business; and in the infrastructure, we financed Loralu, active in demountable structures. Eurazeo is well placed to continue to grasp opportunities with €8.3 billion of fire power, out of which €6.6 billion of third-party money.
Realizations stood at €700 million. Eurazeo has had several exits, notably with Fermax and Ex Nihilo in buyout, Memo Therapeutics in biotech, WeMaintain, Rendesco, Legalplace in venture, and several exits in secondaries.
Regarding H2 2026, we are looking at a solid pipeline of exits across strategies. I now hand over to William, who will get you through our results.
William Kadouch-Chassaing
Thank you, Christophe. I will now take you through the financial results for H1 indeed.
Let me start with the asset management activity. Overall, as you can see on the charts, AUM growth and fee-paying AUM growth illustrate the dynamism of our asset management business.
Total assets under management were up 9% in H1 relative to the year past, surpassing €40 billion, with third-party AUM up a strong 13%, which is above market. Fee-paying AUM were up 6% at €29.4 billion, with third-party fee-paying AUM growing also a strong 13%.
Management fees stood at €213 million in H1, up 6% from previous year on a comparable basis. Third-party management fees were up 14% with a strong performance of private markets up 18% and a better performance of IM Global Partner at +2% like-for-like.
The growth of IMG was driven by positive net inflows, particularly in active ETF. Balance sheet management fees were down 14% as we voluntarily limit our new commitments in our funds and execute our exit plan.
Of note, our private market fee rates remain stable at around 120 basis points. With a steady growth of our third-party assets and fees and the managed downsizing of our balance sheet, we are well on track to reduce the weight of our balance sheet in the funds below 20% faster than initially planned.
May remember, we had announced that target back in November '23 in our Capital Market Day. At the end of 2023, our balance sheet represented 31% of our total AUM.
AUM from the balance sheet now represent only 22% of total AUM. Likewise, management fees from the balance sheet represented around 31% end of 2023 and are now down to 23% in H1 2026.
Logically, the combination of growth in third-party management fees, strict cost discipline, and a more meaningful contribution of performance fees leads to a jump in the cash flow of our asset management business. This is how the model works.
As you can see, fee-related earnings are up 11% in H1 with further margin improvement. EBITDA is up 20%, reaching €100 million.
Finally, operating free cash flow from the asset management activity reached €54 million, up 75% from a year before. In a nutshell, the contribution of the asset management activity, excluding financial costs and other income, is up +38% in H1 on a like-for-like basis.
As mentioned, we continue to be very disciplined on costs with opex up 3% only year-on-year. Financing costs at IMGP are down significantly, especially in H1 '25 figure as H1 '25 figures were impacted by negative forex impact.
It's also reflects the reduction of the indebtedness at IMG level. Let me now turn to the investment company.
As announced, we returned to a slight positive value creation in H1 2026 at 0.3% organically or +€20 million. In buyout, we posted +0.2% in value creation.
We continue to have positive earnings momentum in our portfolio companies. We, however, remained disciplined on multiples given the context in some sectors, notably in SaaS and business services.
Growth equities posted a positive value creation of 1%, driven by further progress in our new vintage, EGF IV. In real assets, we enjoy a good momentum in infrastructure and in operational real estate.
We adjusted down some specific valuations in direct real estate to reflect multiples and cap rate. On a per-share basis, our portfolio is up 3.3% to €105.4 per share in H1.
Our share buyback program thus added +2% on the portfolio value in H1. Let me come back to the fundamentals behind this performance.
I said overall H1 2026 was another illustration of the quality of the underlying assets in spite of a mixed macro environment with some headwinds in Q2 from the early war. First in buyout, which represent 57% of the total value of the portfolio, you can see revenues and EBITDA were up respectively 4% and 7%.
Going into details, April and May were slower, arguably, but we have been seeing green shoots in June and July. Second, companies in our growth portfolio, which represent 22% of the portfolio value, posted an aggregated revenue growth of 22% with our largest companies outperforming.
The EGF IV portfolio continues to perform strongly above +50% revenue growth. Third, in our real assets portfolio, which accounts for 14% of Eurazeo portfolio value, EBITDA in the hospitality business was up 6% while infrastructure continues to perform very well.
You will find in the appendices of the presentation, and we will do that regularly, further details on the balance sheet performance and components and in line with our deep dive of April 2000, sorry, April 29th. Turning now to the investment company P&L.
As mentioned, we returned to positive value creation in H1 on the portfolio at +€20 million. IMG had a positive impact on the fair value of its partners, in particular with the sale of its stakes in RBA, combined with lower internal fees, cost discipline, and lower financial expenses.
The IC contribution improved by nearly €300 million compared to H1 2025, to reach -€69 million. Turning now to the group P&L.
With a stronger contribution from asset management activity and an improvement in the investment activity, net present group share improved by €300 million to be close to zero. Let us finish with portfolio rotation and capital distribution.
We announced and realized around €300 million in exits pertaining to the balance sheet during H1 2026, corresponding to 4.3% of last year NAV. We have a good pipeline of exits for H2, as said by Christophe, with some promising processes already underway.
This should put us on a path towards our historical average in realizations. During H1, we continue to prove our ability to sell assets with an uplift above NAV.
We realized the exit of two buyout companies early in H1 at more than 2.5 times cash-on-cash each and together with an uplift of 150% on our last mark. We sold a portfolio of Spanish hotels at NAV.
Our Kurma franchise, i.e., our biotech franchise, sold a company with 150% minimum uplift with further upside depending on the achievement of certain milestones. Let me stress again that, for us, this is a best proof point to assess the quality of our portfolio valuation approach and processes.
As I mentioned at the beginning of the presentation, we continue to deliver on our capital return promise. Since our Capital Market Day, we distributed €1.3 billion through €600 million in ordinary dividends and €700 in share buyback.
We already acquired 14% of our own shares through H1 2000, 2026. Looking ahead, we plan to continue to increase our ordinary dividend and to buy another 11% of our own shares by the end of 2027, maximizing our legal limits.
Depending on the price at which we will do the share buybacks, we will consider adding extraordinary dividends to complement our distribution to shareholders to reach our targets. In a nutshell, we had a strong set of results in H1 '26.
We continued to grow fast our asset management and to transform our business model. Our balance sheet is back to positive value creation, and we continue to deliver on shareholder return.
We believe this momentum should drive a rerating of our stock. As a reminder, let me just come back to how, with Christophe and team, we see Eurazeo's fundamental value drivers.
We are first a fast-growing asset manager, profitable and cash-generative. Based on undemanding multiples, it should be worth up to €40 per share.
We have a balance sheet portfolio net of carried tax and debt that is worth €105 per share, rounded. We have a net debt that should be deducted of €21 per share.
Hence, our calculations position total value between €115 and €125, giving significant upside for the current share price that is for you to judge. Thank you for your attention.
We can now open to the Q&A session.
Operator
Ladies and gentlemen, if you wish to ask a question, you may ask in two ways: by submitting a written question in the box below the player or by joining the conference call and dial pound key 5 on your telephone keypad to enter the queue. The next question comes from Nicolas Vaysselier from BNP Paribas.
Please go ahead.
Nicolas Vaysselier
Hi. Good morning, gentlemen.
Thank you for taking my question. The first one, I want to check a bit the extraordinary dividend potential.
On my tracking, assuming today's share price, you would be at about €1.1 billion of share buyback since 2024 at the end of 2027. The CMD had highlighted a target at 1.5.
Do you say that the extraordinary dividend could be as high as €400 million to make for the gap? Then, secondly, exit activity has been a bit muted in your H1 on the balance sheet side.
You expect an acceleration in H2. I wanted to know if you view the current pipeline as enough to deliver the roughly 20% asset disposal pace that you're trying to aim every year.
Thirdly, you also flag potential for improving investment returns in H2. However, I've noticed that the growth figures you're quoting in the press release when it comes to EBITDA growth and revenue growth in buyout seem to be slowing a bit versus prior reporting periods.
What makes you confident that returns can accelerate? Is it that you expect the multiples to start increasing, reflecting strong markets we are seeing right now, or do you think the macro environment improves from here?
Thank you.
William Kadouch-Chassaing
Thank you, Nicolas. I'll take these three questions.
First, on the distribution, what we say here is that we're committed to the portion on the dividend, ordinary dividend, I think we have a track record of increasing it by 10% of the above in the past years. I won't commit, of course, for next year as this is a board and General Assembly decision.
Expect that we will continue to thrive growing the dividend per share. Then we are committed to execute the 25% de-equitization of the company through the share buyback, and the cancellation of shares.
We've already completed a significant portion of it. When you look at the math, clearly, there is a factor which need to be taken into consideration, which is the average price at which we buy shares.
What we're saying here, effectively, I think your understanding is correct, is that conceptually we will compensate the shortfall, in euro amount for the share buyback with other means, i.e., dividends. Exit activity, and I hope it's clear.
If it's not, please reiterate your question. Again, €2.3 and 25% de-equitization are the key commitments we take.
Exit activity, I think it's very much as we had said. Arguably, the environment is not good, and I think everyone would tell you that.
We've been able to sell what we had in mind to sell in H1, and we've launched a number of processes for H2. Yes, we are confident that we will continue to execute on our exit plan and converge towards the historical average.
I think we have now established a track record of being able to rotate assets a bit faster than market, which translate into DPIs, by the way, in the funds, which are almost in every category in quartile one range. We'll see how it goes, but we reiterate we have a rather good pipeline for second half.
Investment return on the investment company, let me be a bit more specific. I don't think we've said we see an increase in H2.
We said from 2026 onwards, we see a gradual improvement in value creation after the adjustment we had to do in the past two years, partly because some companies we had to write down, partly because we had to factor in the new elements in the market, i.e., AI impact on SaaS multiples, and some companies more impacted by some macro events. Now we said we have a strong portfolio that company continue to perform reasonably well.
We're going into a gradual improvement rather than a marked improvement. This is how you see that.
We are resuming with value creation, in other words, and we see the pattern has been more or less dynamic depending upon the multiple environment. Fundamentally, on the buyout companies' performance, there is a very good element into it, which is that it is very broad-based.
Companies across the board, including, by the way, in SaaS, do perform well. There are a few companies which had more difficulties, and now have been marked down quite significantly.
This should be an issue for the future. That's how you can see the dynamic on the earnings.
In other words, what I'm trying to say is that we are not betting on multiples. We continue to mark up assets primarily, I should say even solely, on the earnings growth.
Nicolas Vaysselier
Thank you very much. That's so clear.
Operator
The next question comes from Oliver Carruthers from Goldman Sachs. Please go ahead.
Oliver Carruthers
Hi there. Good morning both.
Thanks a lot for the presentation. I just have one follow-up question for me from your final point there.
Did I just hear you correctly on this returning to positive value creation? I don't want to put words in your mouth, but it sounds like on the buyout side, this is a broad-based, I guess flat-to-up dynamic in the first half.
It's not being driven by uplift from a couple of big assets. Say it's broad-based, and it just sounds like the language you're using is that we're kind of at the end of a multiyear multiple adjustment period, which would be a bit of an inflection point.
I just wanted to check I understood that correctly. Then the second question.
Just on the acceleration in realizations in terms of strong pipeline for the second half, could you just comment on the types of exit processes that we should be looking out for just to understand the sensitivities to market dynamics? Thank you.
Maybe
William Kadouch-Chassaing
you comment on the pipeline, which you are going to be a short answer probably. On the value creation, let us be very cautious there.
Yes, I think we take the word of inflection point, because there were a few companies we have adjusted Remember the 29th of April presentation where, together with the team, we really showed where we had made some adjustment, and there were a few companies that have been put to zero. That was the bulk of their adjustments.
By the way, some of these companies can recover value a bit in the future because some of them have better trends, but that's not taken into account as of yet. Then we said we also have taken into consideration some multiple compression in some areas, namely software.
Then we had said at the time, by the way, that we have not started adjusting these multiples just beginning of '26, but that was a story already starting in '25 for us. Now looking forward, the reason why I'm cautious is because we live in a very uncertain environment.
You can see that we have an improvement, as I said, in the pattern of growth, both revenues and EBITDA, in buyout in June and July, after a reasonably slower Q2 because of, what you know. We'll see how it goes for the rest of the year.
Inflection point, yes. That's going to be a gradual improvement in '26 given what I've just said.
The good thing is we are able to sell always with an uplift to the last NAV, and we continue to have a broad-based, decent to good performance on the underlying metrics. On realizations, Christophe will take the question.
Christophe Bavière
On realizations, yes, you are right to point out that the €700 million is a six months' picture. It doesn't reflect our goal for the 12 months of 2026.
As we said previously, we are aiming for our historical yearly realization over the course of the plan. We have no bad news on this because we have a quite healthy pipeline of exit candidates, and several monetization processes are being initiated.
We are using the full range of what can be used. We are obviously working on some plain vanilla exits, but we also use dividend recap, and we can use, in some cases, continuation vehicles or tools like that to reach the 2026 target.
As we cannot comment on any specific transaction. Again, we continue to aim for historical average level, and we will reach 15% to 20% of our previous year's NAV rotation.
Oliver Carruthers
Got it. Very very helpful.
Thank you both.
Operator
The next question comes from Arnaud Palliez from CIC CIB. Please go ahead.
Alexandre Gérard
Yes. Good morning, and thank you for taking my questions.
Four quick questions. The first one is related to private equity and to fundraising, which was weaker than last year.
Can you help us maybe better understanding that performance? How does this performance compare to the market as a whole?
Second question that's related to the net financial debt of the group, which stands at €1.4 billion. At the end of the plan, by the end of 2027, do you expect that net financial debt to be back to zero where it was when you announced the plan in November 20 2023?
Or can you help us understanding where you see the debt of the group? The third question is more or less related to that good set of results.
It's related to AI, and do you think that AI might help you maybe continuing to increase your operating profitability, which has already progressed rather well? My fourth question is related to M&A.
Are you still studying M&A opportunities? The market continues to consolidate, if we could have an update on that front.
Thank you very much.
William Kadouch-Chassaing
We start with fundraising and PE?
Christophe Bavière
Thank you, Arnaud, for your question. Yes, just the fact that private equity fundraising was weaker during six months is mainly due to the fact that the product offering for private equity was during six months less important than the product offering that was mainly occupied by private debt.
In the second half of this year, we will have again the tail end of PME number 5. We are working right now on several potential opportunities to raise money in private equity, mainly through coinvestment.
That fundraising can be organized through the fundraising of flagships, but you can also use coinvestment and continuation vehicles to attract new categories of LPs. That the sovereign funds, the very large, the most experienced pension funds in the world, they want to get access not only to good flagships, but also to direct investment opportunities.
This phenomenon was purely technical during the first half of the year. Again, we have completed the first closing.
A first closing is always difficult. Takes time to realize.
Now that the first closing of PME V has been completed and quite at a good level, we will accelerate on this.
William Kadouch-Chassaing
Net financial debt. We are operating at a moderate gearing.
That's the intention of the group on a mid to long-term basis. Let me remind you that we got an external ratings from two ratings agencies now, i.e., Fitch and S&P.
It's well into the BBB category, that's based on the cash flow pattern of our asset management improving, and it's also based on our sustainably low gearing between 15% and 20% 20% plus, depending upon the period in time in the year. That's what we intend to have.
We intend to have a modest gearing over time that trend-wise it goes to zero, but it's not necessarily a good policy to have it at zero. AI, that's a broad topic.
That obviously all our teams on the investment side, but I'd say also as an asset manager or our team in different transversal functions are very focused on. I'd say that for the companies we invest into, what the major focus is on is more to see if the revenue model is disrupted by AI, or if the revenues can benefit from an early adoption of AI, particularly agentic AI.
That is extremely relevant for our growth teams, which invest a lot into agentic AI type of companies and even are able to rotate them in less than one year. Cognigy, for example, in growth, but it is true, of course, for all our buyout companies that are more software-oriented.
On top, of course, everyone is asking itself, including us, what we can do operationally to be more efficient, and we have identified a few areas. On M&A, Christophe, I guess we're going to do the same answer as usual.
I think Christophe, we've told you many times, we think we can grow this company organically at a pace that is above market. This is what we do.
We said we can transform the business model efficiently through that growth and rotation and combined with distribution to shareholders. That's what we do.
We said we are not blind. We also see that the market is a market where there is more concentration on fewer players.
This is the age of platforms. We think, as Christophe has reminded you of it, that we see a potential place that is natural for Eurazeo, which is being the leading cross-asset platform in European market.
In that context, could M&A help us, wise M&A, to go faster? Potentially, yes.
On top of what we do every day, we also assess potential opportunities. As you can see, so far we've been mainly focused on the organic growth.
Christophe Bavière
I would say, just to complete what William has said, in the past, yes, it is true that Eurazeo has been able to successfully integrate some acquisition. What is Eurazeo PME today has been in the past OFI Private Equity, and it has been a successful integration.
Part of what we do today in private debt, in secondary, comes from the acquisition of Idinvest. I think that, yes, we have demonstrated that should an opportunity occur, we will be able not only to acquire it, but also to successfully integrate.
As William was mentioning, the core of our strategy today is to be attractive. We want to be attractive should we have an opportunity.
We want to be selected also by these people to be a place where we can accelerate. Okay.
Alexandre Gérard
Thank you very much.
Operator
The next question comes from Iulian De Brouwer from ABN AMRO ODDO BHF. Please go ahead.
Iulian Dobrovolschi
Good morning, gentlemen. This is Iulian from ABN ODDO.
I have two questions, please: one on the value creation and the other one on the exits in the balance sheet portfolio. To begin with the one on value creation, I think over the last few years, value creation was held back by several legacy assets and valuation and reassess, as also flagged today.
I'm just wondering, are there still any material assets in the portfolio where you see downside risk to carrying value over the next quarters? The other one is on the exits.
I'm appreciating your comments on the H2 exit outlook, but wanted to understand the exit seasonality you expect in 2026. As you mentioned in the call today that the realized value of the portfolio in H1 was pretty much on plan, and you expect realizations to be on plan again in the second half, but also that would imply about 2x acceleration over the H1 level.
I was actually wondering why there should be such a seasonality in the exits and is the slow pace in H1 driven by your decision to wait for better pricing or do you see any buyers still pushing back on valuation expectations that you have? Thanks.
Okay.
William Kadouch-Chassaing
Let's start with value creation. I hope you won't take it the wrong way, but let me just reiterate that at any point in time, when we do valuation, we factor in everything we know.
There is no case where we would hold on a marking down, should we know already that a company should be worth less than what we publish it is worth. Just quoting the obvious, huh?
Your question is nevertheless very legitimate. Where do we see the risk?
We're very comfortable with the valuation we have. It doesn't mean that there couldn't be risk, as there are, by the way, opportunities.
If I start with the opportunities, what we see is, for example, is that the software companies continue to have a very good performance. We don't see the disruption in our numbers that everyone talks about.
We see that if the market start to realize that it's been too sanguine on the valuation of SaaS companies, maybe there is an upside here in the multiples. Let's see.
By definition, we're a bit cautious on the environment because of the early war. That has created some dysfunctionalities in the macro that we've seen in Q2.
Trends improving June, July, we'll see how it goes. I said the risk are more of macro risk than specific risk on some companies that we would know are in danger of losing value.
By definition, in the portfolio you have some standard deviation in the performance, but it's rather macro, both upside and downside. On the exit, I do the same answer as Christophe has just done on the private equity fundraising.
We have a number of assets that are disposed of every year pertaining to the balance sheet that is not big number, right? We're talking about six, seven, sometimes up to eight.
You can't say there is a seasonality that you can forecast based on statistical evidences. The same for fundraising, as Christophe said, you may be on the road with two debt flagship and one real asset flagship and no PE, but that doesn't mean that you're bad in PE fundraising.
It's just because you don't have a product on the slate at the time. This is what basically explain the pattern of our exits.
We knew when we did the comments in the frame of our full-year results that the processes that had been launched end of 2025 would yield a certain amount in H1, whilst other processes, maybe more numerous processes or bigger processes, would be launched rather towards Q2 this year. That's how we confirm what I've just said.
Again, huh, seasonality doesn't makes much sense to us given the relatively small numbers of items we're talking about here.
Iulian Dobrovolschi
Understood. Thank you.
Pierre Bernardin
I think we have no further questions on the phone. We have three more minutes, I will try to take a few questions from the script.
There are actually two on the fundraising. One is more about the potential for this year and maybe a beginning of next year.
After the successful close of ESF 5, B7, and the first close of PME IV, is it reasonable to assume that fundraising for the next 12 months will be substantially lower than the previous 12 months? There's also a mention of EGF IV, which has done the first closing, and we're wondering what's next for this one.
That's I would say the first question. I'm taking the second one as well.
It's a question on the evergreen wealth funds. Why do you not seem to be experiencing the same performance and redemption issues at other platforms?
What is the growth potential for the evergreen family?
Christophe Bavière
Thank you. Thank you very much.
As we don't give guidance for the full year at this moment of the year, but we will be more precise during our Q3 trading update. No, it wouldn't be reasonable to be pessimistic on the fundraising of Eurazeo.
Yes, the environment is what it is. Yes, some investors are slower than before to take their decision.
Again, we have a robust and diversified pipeline. It's based on flagships.
It's also based on thematic fund, and we have plenty of room to continue to deploy, to diversify, to expand our LP base. We don't give guidance, but we are reasonably optimistic at this moment of the year, given the fact again that our fundraising will be based on flagships, thematic funds, CVs, coinvestment, mandates, wealth solution, and internationalization.
If we move now to the evergreen issue and which has been without any doubt something volatile during the first half of this year, let us remind you that our evergreen vehicles at Eurazeo are quite specific. They are bought through unit-linked life insurance contract.
At 73%, EPVO3 is held through unit-linked life insurance contract. Unit-linked life insurance contract are a very stable component of savings.
EPVO3 is a French product, it is French legal structure, it is subscribed through French life insurance contract and also in the Benelux. It is mainly used by final users that are very stable in their behavior, in their savings.
That's the first answer to your question. The second answer to your question is the fact that we have currently 20% of cash in this vehicle.
We have always managed this vehicle, and the past performance that were in average close to 7% have always been realized with this very generous proportion of cash. We don't want to avoid the issue regarding the increase of redemption, of the usage of gates.
We are currently, if you look at the first half of this year, the percentage of redemption in percentage per quarter is at 1.6%, which is still much lower than the inflows, the inflows that we receive are more than the double of the quite stable outflows that we naturally face. For the first half of this year, the performance is already at 3.5%, we are back to this historical performance that we have been able to achieve, which is close to a quite stable and robust 7% per year.
Yes, we are very optimistic that the evergreen vehicle at Eurazeo are a very stable component of our business activity.
Pierre Bernardin
Thank you, Christophe. We have two other questions, but not enough time, I will revert back to the investors who are asking the question.
There was one on deployments. I think we can address this.
One on the valuation of the asset management company, and I will revert back to investors on this one, how we are managing the multiples.
William Kadouch-Chassaing
Thank you, Pierre. On behalf of all the team, Christophe and myself would like to thank you for attending this conference.
Obviously, as we are end of July, for those who are taking holidays, we wish you a nice break. Otherwise, we'll be in town in the next week, if you have questions, please direct them to us.
Do not hesitate. Thank you very much.
Bye-bye.
Christophe Bavière
Bye-bye.
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