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Valuing Private Equity Investments Strip by Strip
Institutional investors have steadily increased their allocation to asset classes that do not trade on public securities markets — such as private equity, which now accounts for $5.8 trillion in assets under management. However, traditional asset pricing methods are not well suited to value investments that do not trade on…
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Constructing Optimized Private Equity Programs
We believe that as private markets have grown, institutional investors consider such strategies less ‘alternative’ and more ‘core’ to their overall portfolio. As a result, there is a growing need to take a more holistic and analytical approach in building private market portfolios, benefitting from the various investment types available…
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Technological Disruptive Potential and the Evolution of IPOs and Sell-Outs
Since the late 1990s, the number of private firms exiting via initial public offerings (IPOs) in U.S. markets has sharply declined. At the same time, the number of exits via acquisitions (i.e., sell-outs) has soared. Successful firms are nowadays more likely to sell-out to other (public or private) companies than…
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