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Private equity investment in technologies which deliver low carbon energy has grown as an area of both economic and social performance. This article offers a perspective on some of the challenges in the industry. It relies on case studies drawn...
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Journal of Private Equity. 2010.Vol. 14, no. 1.The venture capital and private equity industry in India has grown significantly since 2004. Using data from the years 2004–2008, the life cycle analysis provides findings that can impact the long-term growth of the industry. The author’s results...
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Journal of Private Equity. 2010.Vol. 14, no. 1.Private placements are important to most private equity funds, since their securities offerings usually rely upon Rule 506 promulgated pursuant to Regulation D under the Securities Act of 1933 (“Securities Act”). However, despite the importance of...
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Journal of Private Equity. 2010.Vol. 14, no. 1.This article provides a summary of certain legal and business issues relevant to joint acquisitions in which both a financial buyer and a strategic buyer join together to acquire a potential target or its business. Through the joint acquisition...
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Journal of Private Equity. 2010.Vol. 14, no. 1.The authors find that private equity and venture capital funds that employ a proactive origination strategy have consistently higher returns, driven by both greater quantity and higher relevance of incoming investment opportunities. These proactive...
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To the extent target firms in M&A scenarios adjust to better suit their acquirers, they eliminate the option of walking away from the acquisition and continuing as a separate firm. The authors posit that, as a result of this behavior, target...
Journal of Alternative Investments
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Infrastructure is regularly considered a natural hedge against inflation due to its monopolistic pricing power, the favorable regulatory regimes, and the limited operating cost exposure. In contrast to this often cited yet not empirically...
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Shipping, although a crucial component of the transportation of commodities worldwide, is hardly present in the finance literature at this point. The first and foremost goal of this article is to describe and explain from an economic perspective the...
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In this article, the authors design a new trading strategy by using cointegration as a measure of long-term dependencies. They show that the theoretical expected return of this strategy is always positive and illustrate it with four exchange traded...
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This article introduces the concept of asymmetric hedge fund replication based on the risk factor model approach. The presented methodology is founded on downside risk management and offers an enhancement of existing hedge fund replication...
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Hedge funds are frequently blamed for increasing volatility and illiquidity in financial markets. The author investigates the validity of this hypothesis by modeling the joint dynamics of hedge fund returns and volatility as well as illiquidity in...