Private equity : fund types, risks and returns, and regulation /

A comprehensive look at the private equity arena. With private equity differing from other asset classes, it requires a whole new approach for those trained in more traditional investments such as stocks and bonds. But with the right guidance, you can gain a firm understanding of everything private...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Cumming, Douglas
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons, 2010.
Series:Robert W. Kolb series in finance.
Wiley Online Library.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to private equity
  • Institutional investment in private equity : motivations, strategies, and performance
  • IPOs and other nontraditional fund-raising methods of private equity firms
  • Listed private equity
  • The syndication of private equity
  • The structure of venture capital and private equity fund portfolios
  • The rise of the PIPE market
  • Private placements by small public entities : Canadian experience
  • Hedge funds' activism : a new trend of convergence toward private equity in public firms?
  • Projection of private equity fund performance : a simulation approach
  • Value creation in middle-market buyouts : a transaction-level analysis
  • Risk and return of private equity : an overview of data, methods, and results
  • Private equity fund selection : how to find true top-quartile performers
  • Real effects of private equity : empirical evidence and a research agenda
  • Employment, wage, and productivity effects of private equity transactions
  • Valuation and (financial) disclosure in the private equity industry : institutional set-up, incentives, and empirical analysis
  • Private equity regulation : a comparative analysis
  • International private equity flows
  • Private equity in emerging markets
  • Private equity in Europe
  • Private equity and leveraged buyouts in Italy : to prohibit or not to prohibit, that is the question
  • Venture capital and private equity in Germany
  • Private equity in Denmark : capital structure and taxes
  • Venture capital and private equity in Canada : phasing out an inefficient tax credit.