Early-stage biopharma: An opportunity for strategic investment

Disproportionately smaller investment

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Investments in biotech have seen consistent, long-term appreciation, even before the explosive market rallies and the IPO boom of 2019-2021.

The biotech public market has dramatically outperformed the S&P500 index over the past two decades. Biotech returns have continued to increase for both public and private companies over the years. A growing majority of the approved drugs commercialized by large pharma companies are externally sourced through licensing and M&A deals with smaller biotech companies and start-ups. The rapid reactivity of the industry to address the Covid-19 pandemic has further enhanced investor confidence in this industry. As a result, historic amounts of capital have been deployed into the sector over the ...

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