Perspectives
and commentary.
Thinking on partnership, value creation and the partnership journey, from Fortitude and from the press.
From Fortitude.
September 2026
How much debt is the right amount of debt?
Fortitude’s house view on leverage: why the right amount is not zero, and not the most a lender will provide.
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August 2026
From disruption to deployment
The SaaSpocalypse, the AI enabler opportunity, and why the value has moved out of software and into the real economy.
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February 2026
Unlocking value in industrial distribution
Australia’s wave of retiring founders, and how horizontal integration turns old-world industrials into premium platforms.
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March 2025
Mid-market private equity trends
Nick Dignam with The Inside Network on deal volume, niche markets and the lower mid-market.
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December 2024
Digitisation in tailored financial services
One of the largest savings pools in the world, and why only about one household in nine gets advice on it.
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July 2024
Energy transition: an investment thesis
The best value sits on the periphery, in the companies the primary sectors will depend on.
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The subtle art of stacking the deck
Good business, good people, good markets, and the operating partners who help them scale.
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June 2024
The booming market for personalised medicine
Treatment built around individual genetics, lifestyle and environment, and what it means for investors.
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August 2023
Investing in digital marketplaces
Digitisation is one of Fortitude’s four themes. Marketplaces are among the most attractive parts of it.
Read →The questions founders ask.
Short answers, in Fortitude’s own words, to the questions founders raise before they take on a private equity partner.
In the press, and on video.
Coverage and interviews from The Australian Financial Review, Capital Brief, Inside Adviser, Mergermarket, ausbiz and The Inside Network. Dated items first, most recent at the top.
- Unfazed by the KPMG scandal, private equity firms circle the accounting sector · Capital Brief, September 2026
- Brisbane PE player Fortitude sparks fire services roll-up with FVS · AFR Street Talk, May 2026
- Australia’s retirement wave is creating a quiet private equity boom · Inside Adviser, April 2026
- Brisbane PE Fortitude signals new era with laundry business acquisition · AFR Street Talk, March 2026
- Brisbane’s Fortitude hunts $200m for inaugural PE fund · AFR Street Talk, November 2025
- Behind the dollars: private equity is still personal in the lower mid-market · Inside Adviser, October 2025
- Fortitude Investment Partners in talks to buy SMSF auditing business · AFR Street Talk, February 2025
- Australia: PE sector specialisation proliferates despite shallow deal market · Mergermarket, February 2025
- The PE puzzle, with Nick Miller · Inside Adviser podcast, October 2024
- There’s riches in niches, but only if you know which private capital corners to look in · Inside Adviser, August 2024
- Power up: PE investor Fortitude scores perfect TEN · AFR Street Talk, May 2023
- The hidden corner of private equity · ausbiz
- Private equity hunter chases low-beta Aussie small firms for upside · ausbiz
- Nick picks small cap PE hotspots · ausbiz
- The shift to PE: the advisory · ausbiz
- All Fortitude appearances on ausbiz
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