Armed with more empowering assumptions; the insight, focus, and acceleration questions; and a desire to seek out low cost (in money but especially time) but high impact solutions, how might activities across the investment lifecycle become more value-adding?

Imagine the following scenario. As chief executive of a growth company, you have been working for months preparing a fund-raising process or sale to private equity. During the beauty parade of investors, almost all went out of their way to express…

Because 2020 let us work with some investor friends more than others, I thought it might be helpful to briefly summarise the ways in which the Catalysis team has been honing its ability to provide you with what we believe has become the most agile and insightful source of support for mid-market investors around management…

It is not surprising, that with so much going on in the news at the moment, we tend to stay focused on coping with the short term disruptions we are faced with: a second wave of Covid, the messy economic environment and the unpredictable implications of Brexit…

So, we got through the initial lockdown period, hopefully relaxed a bit over the summer and it’s now back to school - and back to investing. The deal pipelines of Catalysis clients and the CF advisers appear busy again which is encouraging. But to state the obvious, there are more uncertainties…