The Pepperdine Private Capital Markets Project survey for business owners, administered during the spring of 2010, reveals an increasingly important role of friends and family (Friends/Family) to provide capital for privately-held businesses. Examining business owners’ perceptions of their...

This article discusses the definition and determinants of capacity, and outlines a practical approach for analyzing the capacity of equity funds. It is argued that capacity analysis should focus on ‘effective capacity' for the active component of a portfolio, defined as the assets under...

I introduce a model where entrepreneurs self-select into venture capital funds and value-added from venture capitalists (VCs) (i) decreases as their funds grow and (ii) complements entrepreneurs' quality. Aiming to commit high value-added, thereby attract high-quality entrepreneurs, (too many)...

In the maturing Private Equity industry, investments where the Private Equity fund owns a minority of the equity – as a different form of investment – are gaining influence. Those minority investments use different instruments for value creation than classic majority investments and involve...

We survey more than 200 private equity (PE) managers from firms with $1.9 trillion of assets under management (AUM) about their portfolio performance, decision-making and activities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Given that PE managers have significant incentives to maximize value, their actions...

One of the tools for financing young innovative companies is state-subsidized venture capital funds (VCF). The paper explores the issues of demand for investment and the structure of Latvian state-subsidized VCF investments. We found that of the total number of applications for investment...

Spanish Abstract: La rentabilidad media de los fondos de inversión en España en los últimos 15 años (1,98%) fue inferior a la inversión en bonos del estado a 15 años (4,4%) y a la inversión en el IBEX 35 (4%). Sólo 26 fondos de los 614 con 15 años tuvieron una rentabilidad superior a la...

This study primarily investigates the impact of extreme financial leverage on UK unlisted property fund performance over a 11 year period, 2004 to 2014; accordingly the research problem is addressed applying a panel auto regression to an extended sample provided by the IPD Property Fund Vision...

Guided by a simple model in which hedge fund managers with access to less-profitable investment strategies take more funding risk, I show that funds with a high exposure to market-wide funding shocks - measured by changes in Libor-OIS spreads - subsequently underperform funds with a low exposure...

The mutual fund market in Bangladesh is still small though the concept of the mutual fund was introduced in the year of 1980. Mutual fund sector is lucrative at all over the world where it has much impact on GDP and total market capitalization but Bangladesh is lagging behind in this sector and...