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Risk management for private equity funds

The Journal of Risk, 2014
Although risk management has been a well-ploughed field in financial modeling for over three decades, the understanding how to correctly quantify and manage the risks of investing in private equity remains limited and continues to considerably lag that of other traditional asset classes. The objective of this paper is to fill this gap by developing the
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Performance of Private Equity Funds

2005
Using a dataset of 1328 mature private equity funds, we find that performance estimates found in previous research and used as industry benchmark are overstated. We show that in commonly used samples, accounting values reported by mature funds for non-exited investments are substantial and we provide evidence that these mostly represent living dead ...
Ludovic Phalippou, Oliver Gottschalg
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Private Equity Funds

2013
The world of private equity and private equity funds is potentially very lucrative (offering the potential for extremely high returns) but extremely risky (not for the faint of heart). Private equity generally buys distressed private (non-publicly traded) businesses, positions them in a fund available to wealthy investors, and attempts to turn those ...
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Hedge Funds and Private Equity

2018
Alternative investors have become much more prominent in the global financial ecosystem. Four of the most prominent categories include private equity (PE), hedge funds, sovereign wealth funds, and venture capital. Activist hedge funds are particularly focused on short-term returns; more controversial is whether such short term is damaging to the long ...
Cumming Douglas, Wood Geoffrey
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PROMOTING PRIVATE EQUITY FUNDS [PDF]

Annals of Computational Economics, 2010
The recently development of the capital market intensified the investors attraction toward profit opportunities. The involvement on the capital market has become a widely used activity among all investors regardless their financial power. This has led to diversifying of the capital market, and also to a specialization and hybridization of the financial
Phd. Student . Ioana Radu, Phd. Student. Mihaela Funaru   +1 more
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Private Equity Funds

This vital new Handbook is an authoritative volume presenting key issues in finance that have been widely discussed in the financial markets but have been neglected in textbooks and the usual compilations of conventional academic wisdom.
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The Rise of Private Equity Continuation Funds

This Article provides the first comprehensive examination of an emerging practice within the private equity sector-continuation funds. Continuation funds break from the traditional private equity model by allowing sponsors to hold on to assets beyond the typical fund term and, instead of selling the assets to third parties, sell them to their own newly
Kastiel, Kobi J., Nili, Yaron
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Private Equity and Hedge Fund Activism: Explaining the Differences in Regulatory Responses

European Business Organization Law Review, 2008
Hedge funds and private equity increasingly play an important role in the financial services industry and corporate governance in Europe and the United States. Activist hedge funds and private equity firms have developed similar investment strategies that are designed to influence the corporate governance and organisational structure of publicly listed
McCahery, J.A., Vermeulen, E.P.M.
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Investors in Private Equity Funds

2010
Daniel Hobohm analyses more than 17 000 investments by more than 1800 international investors in more than 2400 private equity and venture capital funds over the last two decades. He compares different investor types in their fund preferences, home bias and investor responses to market shocks.
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Private Benchmarking for Private Equity Funds

The Journal of Alternative Investments, 2023
Christian Tausch, Markus J. Rieder, Philipp Abel   +2 more
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