Debt Types of Private Equity
Private Equity and the Leverage Myth
Jan 6th, 2021 | Filed under: Private Equity, Debt Types of Private Equity, Newly Added, Asset allocation, Equity Types of Private Equity, Asset Allocation Models, Private InvestmentsBy William Kinlaw, CFA This article offers commentary and highlights from “Private Equity and the Leverage Myth” by Megan Czasonis, William Kinlaw, Mark Kritzman and David Turkington in The Journal of Alternative Investments. You can read the full paper here. The private equity market is on an astonishing growth trajectory.Read More
Subscription Line of Credit: Benefits, Risks, and Distortions
Sep 29th, 2020 | Filed under: Private Equity, Debt Types of Private Equity, Newly Added, Equity Types of Private Equity, Private Investments
By Hossein Kazemi, PhD, CFA, CAIA Association, FDP Institute, and Isenberg School of Management A subscription line of credit (SLC) is one of many sources of funding that general partners (GPs) can use to invest, manage, size, and time a private equity fund’s cash flow. By far, the largest sourceRead More
Don’t count on multiple expansion and leverage anymore
Aug 25th, 2020 | Filed under: Private Equity, Debt Types of Private Equity, Newly Added, CAIA Alternative Viewpoints, Private Investments
By Wu Guowei Jack, CFA – Director of Content, APAC at CAIA Association Late Cycle Risks In the private markets world, the term “late cycle risks” has been much bandied about in recent years. A combination of high-entry multiples, high leverage, and a record amount of dry powder no doubtRead More
Hedge Funds and Private Equity—Building Bridges—Or Not
Jul 27th, 2020 | Filed under: Private Equity, Debt Types of Private Equity, Newly Added, Asset Managers, Institutional Investing, Venture capital, Asset allocation, Equity Types of Private Equity, Asset Allocation Models, The A.I. Industry, Institutional Asset Management, Hedge Funds, Private InvestmentsAlternative investment managers were evolving in the context of changing market conditions even before the Covid-19 pandemic, although the virus has speeded up the process. What is emerging is an alternatives landscape where pure-play hedge funds will be rare. That is one of the conclusions of a new study byRead More
Stewardship: It Hertz When You Ignore It
May 26th, 2020 | Filed under: Debt Types of Private Equity, Newly Added, What about beta?, Risk Management & OperationsHertz has been around for just over a century. It was started by a fellow name Jacobs in the city of Chicago with a very modest fleet consisting of about a dozen Model Ts. The ensuing years would find the growing franchise initially as a small business owned by JohnRead More
The Future is in the Hands of Private Debt Funds
Mar 23rd, 2020 | Filed under: Private Equity, Debt Types of Private Equity, Newly Added, Venture capital, Equity Types of Private Equity, The A.I. Industry, Private InvestmentsA new analyst report looks at what is in store for the private markets given Covid-19, an impending economic slowdown, and energy price volatility. It argues that we are entering a bear different from other bears. This bear market may be part of a transition that will increase the roleRead More
Are there any ‘real’ ESG unicorns?
Mar 10th, 2020 | Filed under: Private Equity, Debt Types of Private Equity, Newly Added, Venture capital, Equity Types of Private Equity, ESG, The A.I. Industry, Private Investments, Other Topics in A.I.Unicorns (privately owned start-ups with a valuation of at least $1 billion) have long been the great sought-after beasts of the VC and PE worlds. But are they good for the planet? The unicorn boom was driven by the combination of easy credit and old-fashioned hype, combined with the wayRead More
The Perils of Late-Cycle Investing
Feb 11th, 2020 | Filed under: Hedge Fund Industry Trends, Private Equity, Debt Types of Private Equity, Newly Added, Equity Types of Private Equity, Credit Derivatives, Other Issues in Private Investments, Alternative Investments in Context, The A.I. Industry, Structured Credit Products, Hedge Funds, Private Investments, Structured ProductsIt is widely believed that much of the world is now experiencing the late stages of a bull market. There will be a downturn because no tree grows to the sky. Forecasting the nature and severity of the coming downturn is tricky, but perhaps that is not the right question.Read More
Lessons from CAIS 2020
Feb 11th, 2020 | Filed under: Debt Types of Private Equity, Newly Added, Institutional Investing, Socially responsible investing, Equity Types of Private Equity, Artificial Intelligence, CAIA Alternative Viewpoints, Alternative Investments in Context, ESG, Economics, Climate change, Institutional Asset Management, Hedge Funds, Macroeconomics, Private Investments, Personalities in AI, SRI and Clean Energy, Allocating to A.I., Other Topics in A.I.John Bowman, CFA, Senior Managing Director at CAIA Association “You’re a kite dancing in a hurricane, Mr. Bond.” (Mr. White to 007, Spectre) Despite the crystal blue island water, softly rolling Caribbean tide, and perfect skies outside the hotel all week, I opened my conference wrap-up panel reminding delegates forRead More
Fossil Fuel: Divestment By the Numbers
Jan 16th, 2020 | Filed under: Private Equity, Social investing, Debt Types of Private Equity, Newly Added, Venture capital, Socially responsible investing, Equity Types of Private Equity, Alternative energy, Other Issues in Private Investments, The A.I. Industry, Private Investments, SRI and Clean Energy, Allocating to A.I., Finance & Economics, Other Topics in A.I.Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft and one of the world’s wealthiest humans, attracted a good deal of attention last fall by saying, “Divestment, to date, probably has reduced about zero tons of emissions.” He thereby put his finger on a key fault line amongst those who regard ESG investmentRead More
Hedge Fund Investors Respond to the Turning of the Business Cycle
Jan 13th, 2020 | Filed under: Hedge Fund Industry Trends, Private Equity, Hedge Fund Strategies, Investing in Commodities, Equity Hedge Funds, Debt Types of Private Equity, Newly Added, Equity Types of Private Equity, Other Issues in Private Investments, The A.I. Industry, Hedge Funds, Commodities, Private InvestmentsIt is reasonable to expect that a diversified hedge fund portfolio will make more modest returns in 2020 than it did in 2019, according to Agecroft Partners, which has done its usual January crystal-ball gazing on the new year, looking for the top industry trends and how they may playRead More
Greenfields and Brownfields: Asian Investors Backing Infrastructure Investments
Dec 22nd, 2019 | Filed under: Infrastructure, Debt Types of Private Equity, Newly Added, Credit Derivatives, Other Issues in Private Investments, Operationally Intensive Real Assets, The A.I. Industry, Structured Credit Products, Private Investments, Real Assets, Structured ProductsThe Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank has taken a 30% stake in Bayfront Infrastructure Management. Clifford Capital, with the backing of the government of Singapore, has the other 70%. They have created Bayfront (with a combined capitalization of $180 million) to mobilize a pool of infrastructure investors in the expectation thatRead More
Alternative Investments: Investing By Numbers
Nov 19th, 2019 | Filed under: Real Estate, Private Equity, Debt Types of Private Equity, Liquid and Fixed Income Real Estate, Newly Added, Fintech, Technology, Equity Types of Private Equity, Technology, The A.I. Industry, Real Estate Equity Investments, Hedge Funds, Private Investments, Real Assets, Risk Management & OperationsWhat’s in the future for alternative investments asset management? A new publication from Ernst & Young, London, contends that allocations to alternative investments and are “robust,” but that there is an important shift underway in favor of private equity and at the expense of hedge funds. In 2018, 40% ofRead More
More ‘Greater Fools’ After WeWork
Nov 14th, 2019 | Filed under: Debt Types of Private Equity, Newly Added, Venture capital, Equity Types of Private Equity, Other Issues in Private Investments, Business News, The A.I. Industry, Private InvestmentsThe term “greater fool theory” refers to the many circumstances in which speculators buy a (potentially) productive asset, basing their buy decision not on the asset’s operational value, but on the notion that there is a “greater fool” out there who will pay even more. The term refers, then, toRead More
Investors Want Liquidity and They Want it Now
Nov 7th, 2019 | Filed under: Private Equity, Hedge Fund Strategies, Debt Types of Private Equity, Newly Added, Institutional Investing, Equity Types of Private Equity, The Global Economy & Currencies, Other Issues in Private Investments, Business News, Economics, The A.I. Industry, Institutional Asset Management, Hedge Funds, Macroeconomics, Private Investments, Allocating to A.I., Finance & Economics, Other Topics in A.I.A recent publication from Fidelity Institutional Asset Management, while looking at the money markets in the US, emphasizes that investors are looking for liquidity. The report, written by Kerry Pope and Chris Lewis, each an institutional portfolio manager with FIAM, begins with a discussion of the Federal Reserve’s September rateRead More
Mergers and Acquisitions Trending Down in Europe
Nov 5th, 2019 | Filed under: Private Equity, Debt Types of Private Equity, Newly Added, Equity Types of Private Equity, Business News, The A.I. Industry, Private InvestmentsIn a new report, Pitchbook looks at the mergers and acquisitions trends in Europe. In 2019 through September, the value of European M&A is lower than it has been since 2014, and the volume is lower than it has been since 2010. Only two sectors did not see year-on-year declinesRead More
Improve Private Funds, Don’t Do Away with Them
Oct 22nd, 2019 | Filed under: Consultants, Private Equity, Debt Types of Private Equity, Newly Added, Institutional Investing, Equity Types of Private Equity, Other Issues in Private Investments, Endowments & Foundations, The A.I. Industry, Institutional Asset Management, Private Investments, Allocating to A.I.By John L. Bowman, CFA This editorial first appeared on Sept. 18 in Crain’s Pensions & Investments online edition. It’s open season on private equity in the Democratic presidential debates. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders and others have made attacking “Wall Street” a major plank in their campaign platforms.Read More
Divestitures and Carve-outs in the Top Middle Market Deals
Oct 8th, 2019 | Filed under: Private Equity, Debt Types of Private Equity, Newly Added, Equity Types of Private Equity, Other Issues in Private Investments, The A.I. Industry, Private InvestmentsPrivate equity middle market deal-making did well in the first half of 2019, matching the pace of 2018, which was a record-setting year, according to a new report from Pitchbook. The authors credit the usual suspects with this continued vigor: lots of dry powder; low interest rates; and continued economicRead More
Washington, Don’t Bar the Door
Oct 3rd, 2019 | Filed under: Debt Types of Private Equity, Newly Added, Venture capital, Equity Types of Private Equity, Other Issues in Private Investments, The A.I. Industry, Private InvestmentsPitchBook’s Adam Putz recently tackled the intensifying political scrutiny of Big Tech and the harm the scrutineers may do by trying to fix something that isn’t broken—the merger and acquisitions market for digital startups. The giants in the field (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Google and its parent, Alphabet) are associated withRead More
Back to the Near Future: 2019 Mergers & Acquisitions
Sep 5th, 2019 | Filed under: Private Equity, Hedge Fund Strategies, Debt Types of Private Equity, Newly Added, Event-Driven Hedge Funds, Equity Types of Private Equity, Other Issues in Private Investments, The A.I. Industry, Hedge Funds, Private InvestmentsIntralinks has put out its predictions for mergers and acquisitions activity through the remainder of this year. The Intralinks Deal Flow Predictor tracks early-stage deal activity to predict how many deals have reached public-announcement stage six months on. The latest issue of the SS&C Intralinks Deal Flow Predictor also includesRead More
Corporate Restructuring: United States vs. United Kingdom
Sep 2nd, 2019 | Filed under: Private Equity, Hedge Fund Strategies, Debt Types of Private Equity, Newly Added, Insolvency, Regulatory Environment, Event-Driven Hedge Funds, Other Issues in Private Investments, Business News, The A.I. Industry, Hedge Funds, Private InvestmentsDavid Stevenson, a US District Court Judge for the Northern District of Texas, has presented his analysis of the differences between the law in the United Kingdom and the United States concerning “a debtor’s ability to approve a restructuring arrangement over the objection of creditors that disapprove.” This is moreRead More
How Endowments and Foundations Look at Hedge Funds
Aug 8th, 2019 | Filed under: Hedge Fund Industry Trends, Consultants, Private Equity, Hedge Fund Strategies, Equity Hedge Funds, Debt Types of Private Equity, Newly Added, Venture capital, Equity Types of Private Equity, High-net-worth investors, Endowments & Foundations, The A.I. Industry, Institutional Asset Management, Fees, Family Offices, Hedge Funds, Private InvestmentsCowen’s Capital Introduction Group has compiled information on what the endowment and foundation community is thinking about hedge funds and how best to invest in them. The Cowen paper on the subject begins with the observation, drawn from Preqin, that at present US-based E&Fs with more than $750 million inRead More
Ramping Up a PE Allocation Over Time
Jul 21st, 2019 | Filed under: Private Equity, Debt Types of Private Equity, Newly Added, Risk management, Equity Types of Private Equity, The A.I. Industry, Risk Management Strategies & Processes, Private InvestmentsMany investors with long horizons are increasing their allocation to private equity funds: to extract the gains from managerial skill in that field, to reap the illiquidity premium, and simply to diversify. TIAA Endowment & Philanthropic Services has put out a paper on the creation and maintenance of a privateRead More
Private Equity and the Law in India
Jul 9th, 2019 | Filed under: Private Equity, Debt Types of Private Equity, Newly Added, Equity Types of Private Equity, Other Issues in Private Investments, The A.I. Industry, Private InvestmentsA forthcoming article in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law discusses the investor control rights typically negotiated in the private equity context in India. The article, by Arjya B. Majumdar, an associate professor at Jindal Global Law School, begins with the quantity of assets under management by theRead More
Crop Protection and Inputs Management: Growing Investments in AgTech
Jun 20th, 2019 | Filed under: Private Equity, Commodities, Agriculture, Investing in Commodities, Debt Types of Private Equity, Newly Added, Venture capital, Farmland, Equity Types of Private Equity, Natural Resources and Land, Angel investing, The A.I. Industry, Commodities, Private InvestmentsThe agricultural sector is under pressure from several directions, including depressed commodity prices, increased regulation, climate change, and changes in consumer tastes. This pressure creates a demand for technological progress, and that in turn creates a market for agtech. Two years ago, Finisterre Ventures and Pitchbook combined their data gatheringRead More
Public to Private LBOs and Innovation
May 21st, 2019 | Filed under: Private Equity, Debt Types of Private Equity, Newly Added, Regulatory Environment, Equity Types of Private Equity, Other Issues in Private Investments, The A.I. Industry, Private InvestmentsA new study considers the proposition that indebtedness can reduce innovation. It offers support for the view that indebtedness in a particular context reduces patent flow. But whether patent flow should be considered a good surrogate for innovation remains open to question. An argument that has long been aimed atRead More
Caveat Emptor: Leveraged Loans and the Credit Cycle
May 19th, 2019 | Filed under: Debt Types of Private Equity, Newly Added, Credit Derivatives, The A.I. Industry, Hedge Funds, Private Investments, Structured ProductsAllianceBernstein, the Nashville-based, asset management firm released a white paper on high-yield bank loans. Buying these loans seems, to some investors, a fix for the ongoing low-interest-rate environment. But the white paper is a warning. In two words, “buyer beware.” The paper is the work of Douglas J. Peebles andRead More
The ‘Vortex of Volatility’ and the Merger Market
May 16th, 2019 | Filed under: Private Equity, Equity Hedge Funds, Debt Types of Private Equity, Newly Added, Event-Driven Hedge Funds, Equity Types of Private Equity, Other Issues in Private Investments, The A.I. Industry, Hedge Funds, Private InvestmentsIntralinks, the provider of inter-enterprise collaboration products that is perhaps best known for its Deal Flow Predictor, recently interviewed Paul Aversano, a managing director at the consultancy Alvarez & Marsal. Aversano leads A&M’s private equity services practice, and he is the global practice leader of the transaction advisory group. HeRead More
‘There You Go Again’
May 6th, 2019 | Filed under: Private Equity, Debt Types of Private Equity, Newly Added, Equity Types of Private Equity, What about beta?, Other Issues in Private Investments, Alternative Investments in Context, Hedge Funds, Private InvestmentsBy Bill Kelly, CEO, CAIA Association This now famous line was uttered by then citizen Ronald Reagan almost 40 years ago in a presidential debate with the incumbent Jimmy Carter. It was a simple and clever turn of a phrase acting as a counter-punch to Carter’s excoriation of Reagan’s priorRead More
State of the European Union: Alternative Lending
Apr 25th, 2019 | Filed under: Debt Types of Private Equity, Newly Added, Other Issues in Private Investments, The A.I. Industry, Hedge Funds, Private InvestmentsThe state of alternative lending and pertinent regulation within the European Union is the topic of a new white paper co-authored by Allen & Overy, the multinational law firm, and the Alternative Credit Council (an affiliate of AIMA). The paper begins with the observation that over the last four yearsRead More
McKinsey on Mainstream Private Markets
Apr 22nd, 2019 | Filed under: Private Equity, Debt Types of Private Equity, Newly Added, Equity Types of Private Equity, Alternative Investments in Context, The A.I. Industry, Private InvestmentsThe 2019 edition of McKinsey’s annual review of private investment markets is now available. One of the themes of the new edition is that private markets have gone mainstream. Since 2002, private equity’s net asset value has grown twice as fast as global public equities. Looking at that growth fromRead More
The Illiquidity Premium and the Market for Private Assets
Apr 14th, 2019 | Filed under: Real Estate, Private Equity, Debt Types of Private Equity, Liquid and Fixed Income Real Estate, Newly Added, Asset allocation, Equity Types of Private Equity, Asset Allocation Models, Other Issues in Private Investments, Operationally Intensive Real Assets, The A.I. Industry, Real Estate Equity Investments, Private Investments, Real Assets, Finance & EconomicsThe illiquidity premium is one of the most frequently discussed and hotly disputed subjects in financial economics. Speaking broadly, an investment is not a checking account. One generally cannot just “get the cash back” at a moment’s notice, by visiting some equivalent of an ATM. How long will it takeRead More
Pension Funds Not Quite Swamped by ‘Grey Tsunami’
Mar 5th, 2019 | Filed under: Real Estate, Private Equity, Hedge Fund Strategies, Infrastructure, Equity Hedge Funds, Debt Types of Private Equity, Newly Added, Institutional Investing, Asset allocation, Event-Driven Hedge Funds, Equity Types of Private Equity, Natural Resources and Land, Asset Allocation Models, Operationally Intensive Real Assets, The A.I. Industry, Institutional Asset Management, Macro and Managed Futures Funds, Real Estate Equity Investments, Hedge Funds, Commodities, Private Investments, Real Assets, Allocating to A.I.A recent study of public employee retirement systems in the United States reaches conclusions, that, after a fair amount of “grey tsunami” alarmism in recent years, sound reassuring. The study, based on a recent survey of system managements conducted by the National Conference of Public Employee Retirement Systems (NCPERS) inRead More
Green Bonds: The Future of Infrastructure Investing
Feb 24th, 2019 | Filed under: Commodities, Infrastructure, Investing in Commodities, Debt Types of Private Equity, Newly Added, Institutional Investing, Socially responsible investing, Operationally Intensive Real Assets, Climate change, Institutional Asset Management, Hedge Funds, Commodities, Private Investments, Real Assets, SRI and Clean Energy, Other Topics in A.I.Two scholars affiliated with the Centre for International Governance Innovation, Waterloo, Canada, have taken a look at the future of green bonds, that is, bonds whose proceeds are employed to fund environmental initiatives. The paper, by Olaf Weber and Vasundhara Saravade, begins with a guesstimate as to the amount ofRead More
Finance Lessons from the Aftermath of Sherman’s March
Feb 7th, 2019 | Filed under: Private Equity, Debt Types of Private Equity, Newly Added, The A.I. Industry, Private InvestmentsIn the closing months of 1864, General William Tecumseh Sherman and his army marched notoriously “to the sea,” from Atlanta to Savannah. In the opening weeks of 1865, Sherman followed this up with his “Carolinas campaign,” again working to destroy the productive infrastructure, in a path that took him toRead More
Hedge Funds in Venture Capitalist Clothing
Jan 3rd, 2019 | Filed under: Hedge Fund Strategies, Debt Types of Private Equity, Newly Added, Venture capital, Equity Types of Private Equity, The A.I. Industry, Hedge Funds, Private InvestmentsA new study of hedge funds that are engaged in the venture capital space, written by George O. Aragon, Emma Li, and Laura Lindsey, contends that some hedge funds quite successfully exploit their expertise in the value of the publicly owned portion of specific industries when they enter the private/ventureRead More
Agtech: Comfort Zones and Value Chains
Dec 11th, 2018 | Filed under: Real Estate, Agriculture, Investing in Commodities, Debt Types of Private Equity, Liquid and Fixed Income Real Estate, Newly Added, Venture capital, Farmland, Equity Types of Private Equity, Natural Resources and Land, Other Issues in Private Investments, The A.I. Industry, Real Estate Equity Investments, Commodities, Private Investments, Real AssetsAn agtech-focused venture firm has issued a report about global VC activity across agtech and its subsectors. The firm, Finistere Ventures, which describes itself as in the business of helping “ambitious founders transform food and agriculture,” collaborated with Pitchbook in preparing the review. Finistere looks specifically at: (a) macro trends,Read More
Jeff Diehl: The View from SuperReturn Japan 2018, Part II
Dec 6th, 2018 | Filed under: Private Equity, Debt Types of Private Equity, Newly Added, Venture capital, Equity Types of Private Equity, Other Issues in Private Investments, Alternative Investments in Context, The A.I. Industry, Private InvestmentsOn Dec. 6, in Tokyo, Japan, the SuperReturn Japan 2018 event concluded. CAIA was a sponsor of this event, which was billed as “the world’s gateway to Japanese private equity and venture capital.” This is the second part and conclusion of our interview with Jeff Diehl, managing director at AdamsRead More
Jeff Diehl: The View from SuperReturn Japan, Part I
Dec 4th, 2018 | Filed under: Private Equity, Debt Types of Private Equity, Newly Added, Venture capital, Equity Types of Private Equity, The Global Economy & Currencies, Other Issues in Private Investments, Economics, The A.I. Industry, Frontier markets, Macroeconomics, Private Investments, Finance & EconomicsOn Wednesday, December 5, in Tokyo, Japan, the SuperReturn Japan 2018 event convenes. CAIA is a sponsor of this event. Jeff Diehl, managing partner at Adams Street Partners, a multi-national investment manager with more than $35 billion in assets under management, is attending. He will participate in a panel WednesdayRead More
Altman: 30 Years of Distressed Debt Strategies
Nov 8th, 2018 | Filed under: Hedge Fund Strategies, Debt Types of Private Equity, Financial Economics Theory, Newly Added, The A.I. Industry, Hedge Funds, Private Investments, Finance & EconomicsIn the late 1980s, the chairman of The Foothill Group approached Edward I. Altman, already then well known for the creation of the Z-score used for predicting bankruptcy. The chairman asked Altman to develop a descriptive and analytical white paper on distressed debt. He obliged, writing first a paper onRead More
Intralinks/Global Fund Media Survey of LPs Shows Satisfaction
Sep 25th, 2018 | Filed under: Real Estate, Private Equity, Debt Types of Private Equity, Liquid and Fixed Income Real Estate, Newly Added, Institutional Investing, Equity Types of Private Equity, High-net-worth investors, Other Issues in Private Investments, Endowments & Foundations, The A.I. Industry, Institutional Asset Management, Real Estate Equity Investments, Family Offices, Hedge Funds, Private Investments, Real Assets, Allocating to A.I.Intralinks has once again collaborated with Global Fund Media in a survey of limited partners on their satisfaction with recent results and on how they see global investment opportunities near-term. As to satisfaction: 18% of LPs say that their results from alternative investments have been better than they expected. ARead More
(IRR)ational Aggregation
Sep 10th, 2018 | Filed under: Real Estate, Private Equity, Debt Types of Private Equity, Newly Added, Equity Types of Private Equity, What about beta?, Real Estate Equity Investments, Private InvestmentsBy Bill Kelly, CEO, CAIA Association Many of us have had the experience of buying a home and often turn to the bank to provide some level of secured funding for that purchase. Banks, of course, require documentary evidence for the value of their collateral which, invariably, results in a market-based appraisal process resultingRead More
Pitchbook 2018 Report: Where are the unicorns?
Sep 4th, 2018 | Filed under: Private Equity, Industry Size & Managers, Debt Types of Private Equity, Newly Added, Venture capital, Angel investing, Other Issues in Private Investments, The A.I. Industry, Private InvestmentsPitchBook has posted its 2018 VC Unicorn Report. The introduction explains the meaning of the term. (It has only been in use in its financial sense since 2013, so explanations may still be deemed necessary.) “Unicorn” refers to an entity upon which the private investment markets have bestowed a valuationRead More
HBS looks at 40 years of private equity performance
Sep 3rd, 2018 | Filed under: Private Equity, Debt Types of Private Equity, Newly Added, Venture capital, Equity Types of Private Equity, Other Issues in Private Investments, The A.I. Industry, Private InvestmentsIn a new study by Harvard Business School scholars looks into the performance of LPs invested with private equity over four decades. In the paper, Investing Outside the Box, the scholars found that it is generally better to invest inside the box. Specifically, they found that the performance of alternativeRead More
Making Sense of Private Credit Funds
Aug 26th, 2018 | Filed under: Private Equity, Industry Size & Managers, Debt Types of Private Equity, Newly Added, Asset Managers, The A.I. Industry, Private InvestmentsA new study takes what is called a “first look” at the aggregate performance of private credit funds. Using data going back to 2004, the authors (two of whom are affiliated with Adams Street Partners) determine that private credit funds “have performed about as well, or better than, leveraged-loan, high-yield,Read More
Illuminating Gender Differences in Entrepreneurship
Aug 16th, 2018 | Filed under: Debt Types of Private Equity, Newly Added, Venture capital, Equity Types of Private Equity, Angel investing, Other Issues in Private Investments, The A.I. Industry, Private InvestmentsIlluminate Ventures, an early-stage high-tech VC firm, has posted a paper by its founder and managing partner, Cindy Padnos, on “gender differences in entrepreneurship.” The paper begins with the observation that nearly half of the Illuminate portfolio companies have a woman as a co-founder. This doesn’t mean of course thatRead More
Thoughts in Advance of the Chicago AAAIM Event
Jul 24th, 2018 | Filed under: Private Equity, Debt Types of Private Equity, Newly Added, Venture capital, Equity Types of Private Equity, Angel investing, Private InvestmentsThe Association of Asian American Investment Managers holds its Chicago Regional event on Thursday, July 26 at the offices of law firm Sidley Austin LLP, One South Dearborn, beginning at 3 and continuing until 7. AAAIM confidently proclaims that its line-up of panelists is a collection of “rock stars.” AmongRead More
The Problem With Unicorns
Jul 17th, 2018 | Filed under: Private Equity, Debt Types of Private Equity, Newly Added, Venture capital, Equity Types of Private Equity, Other Issues in Private Investments, Private InvestmentsA new book by the Wall Street Journal’s John Carreyrou, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, works as a compelling test case in how the hunger for the next “unicorn,” a hunger that has been a feature in alternative investing for years now, can go badlyRead More
What has private equity done for state pension funds lately?
Jun 14th, 2018 | Filed under: Private Equity, Debt Types of Private Equity, Newly Added, Equity Types of Private Equity, Institutional Asset Management, Private Investments, Allocating to A.I.Los Angeles-based Cliffwater LLC has recently updated a report it prepared a year ago on how state pension systems have fared by way of their investments in private equity. The report as updated finds that PE created on average a 10.7% annualized return across 21 state pensions over its 16-yearRead More
PE Funds and the Causal Arrow
Feb 18th, 2018 | Filed under: Debt Types of Private Equity, Newly Added, Equity Types of Private Equity, Private InvestmentsA new report published by the Copenhagen Business School looks into the consequence of private equity investment on an industry-by-industry basis. The authors find that “industries where private equity funds invest grow more quickly [than others] in terms of total production and employment, and appear less exposed to aggregate shocks.”Read More