Fast growing Family Businesses have many choices when considering the sources of funding to expand their business. The article discusses a systematic approach to exploring a potential partnership between Growth Equity Investors and Family Owned Businesses. It describes under which circumstances...

This report discusses Asian private equity 1, 2 as an asset class from an institutional investor perspective. It is based on surveys with leading limited partners (LPs) and general partners (GPs) in Asian private equity. The two INSEAD-AXA Private Equity Surveys were conducted from April to June...

This report provides an overview of Brazil's private equity industry, discussing its history, current status and outlook. It draws on surveys of leading limited partners (LPs or investors) and general partners (GPs or PE firms) that are currently investing or intend to invest in the Brazilian...

This report takes a closer look at a crucial aspect of private equity (PE), namely the ability of PE firms to exit from their investments in a manner that crystallizes the value created over the period of their ownership. Specifically, it considers exits from private equity investments in Asia's...

This report focuses on the question of value creation in private equity and presents a framework to clearly identify the sources of return and operational value creation by the GPs in PE investment.The framework - IVC 2.0 - deconstructs value creation across various financial and operational...

The demographic metrics and inflationary circumstances that framed the January 2011 revolution in Egypt’s Tahrir Square were almost identical to those prevailing in Japan during their violent 1968 student-led revolts, in the United States when millions demonstrated against the Vietnam War in...