Argentum has two main activities: source –and select top quartile Private Equity fund managers in the Nordic region, and serve as a facilitator for developing the Norwegian Private Equity industry. The first activity is covered by the organization’s investment team, now counting eight highly specialised investment professionals. We believe that a highly competent and specialized investment team that carries out thorough selection process serve as a key success factor in order to source and to select the top quartile managers. Having adequate resources to carry out these investment processes are particular important within private equity, because the performance distribution among the different funds are quite significant, and consequently a high selection premium can be earned.

Our mandate states that we shall facilitate the development of the Norwegian private equity industry, thus we have dedicated resources to comply with this mandate.

However, in addition to the effect this role has in order to be a positive contributor to the Norwegian PE landscape, this also has a positive branding effect for Argentum in terms of being a “leading Nordic PE investor”.