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2002 Annual review of private equity and outlook 200302/07/2003. Source: Strategic Capital Management. 
A sense of economic uncertainty pervaded all aspects of the global private equity market in 2002, according to the Strategic Capital Management (SCM) annual review of private equity and outlook for 2003.
Private equity fundraising, investments and exits have all been hit hard by the recent economic downturn, but SCM believes that there is call for cautious optimism about the industry's future in 2003 and beyond.
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Based in Switzerland, Strategic Capital Management is a gatekeeper for some of the major Swiss insurance companies and public and private pension funds. It manages CHF2bn in its private equity programmes and has around CHF100m in discretionary accounts for smaller Swiss investors. It invests across the private equity spectrum both in terms of stage and geography. The firm was set up in 1996 by Hepp and Benedikt Schurch, who had worked together at Morgan Stanley as head of Swiss institutional business and head of asset management respectively.

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