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Private Provision and Private Funding
2019Does privatization of provision lead to increased private funding of welfare services? The chapter explores the mutual dependency between private provision and private funding, an issue that has been largely absent from the debate ever since privatization of provision of Swedish welfare services began in the early 1990s.
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2020
This chapter discusses private equity funds. It looks at the typical fund structures, who invests in private equity, and compares and contrasts alternative investment options. A private equity fund is a form of ‘investment club’ in which the principal investors are institutional investors, such as pension funds, investment funds, endowment funds ...
John Gilligan, Mike Wright
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This chapter discusses private equity funds. It looks at the typical fund structures, who invests in private equity, and compares and contrasts alternative investment options. A private equity fund is a form of ‘investment club’ in which the principal investors are institutional investors, such as pension funds, investment funds, endowment funds ...
John Gilligan, Mike Wright
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2021
The current situation in nuclear fusion research, contrary to its first decades, is that most non-mainstream fusion approaches, both as regards devices and alternative fuels, are privately funded.
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The current situation in nuclear fusion research, contrary to its first decades, is that most non-mainstream fusion approaches, both as regards devices and alternative fuels, are privately funded.
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Mutual fund investments in private firms
Journal of Financial Economics, 2017Historically a key advantage of being a public firm was broader access to capital, from a disperse group of shareholders. In recent years, such capital has increasingly become available to private firms as well. We document a dramatic increase over the past twenty years in the number of mutual funds participating in private markets and in the dollar ...
Sungjoung Kwon +2 more
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New Political Economy, 2009
Private equity funds are businesses that draw upon capital and debt in the international financial system to acquire stakes in companies that are intended to be sold for profit after a number of ye...
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Private equity funds are businesses that draw upon capital and debt in the international financial system to acquire stakes in companies that are intended to be sold for profit after a number of ye...
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Private Benchmarking for Private Equity Funds
The Journal of Alternative Investments, 2023Christian Tausch +2 more
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Risk management for private equity funds
The Journal of Risk, 2014Although 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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Public Fund Governance and Private Fund Fees
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016In a continuing low-interest rate environment that stifles fixed income returns, pension funds are under increasing pressure to produce strong returns from other asset classes, including alternative assets like interests in hedge funds, private equity funds, and venture capital funds.
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Essays on Private Equity Fund of Funds
In this dissertation, I examine the risk-adjusted performance of private equity (PE) fund of funds (FOFs) and contribution to portfolio performance when incorporated into a diversified portfolio of public stocks and bonds. I apply constraints relevant to retail investors to evaluate whether FOFs serve as an effective vehicle for democratizing PE—makingopenaire +1 more source
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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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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