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CloseOn average, venture capital and buyout funds experience a performance fall off after seven to eight years, while the cross-sectional dispersion amongst them increases. Listen to the authors of “The Evolution of Private Equity Fund Value”, published in The Journal of Alternative Investments, as they discuss their research findings, which represents the first large-sample analysis of buyout and venture capital fund values over their lifetimes.
Description: Constructing a 'Portfolio for the Future' begins with broad and sophisticated diversification of beta. While alpha generation remains an important pursuit, so too are climate risk, operational excellence, and manager selection - now table stakes for the discerning asset owner. Bill Kelly, CEO, CAIA and Aaron Filbeck, CFA, CAIA, CIPM, FDP, Director of Global Content Development, CAIA, discussed the re-brand of CAIA Association’s blog, along with the issues they’ve been tackling in the blog’s “What About Beta” column.
CAIA's Director of Marketing, Jeanne Barron, interviews CEO Bill Kelly and John Bowman to hear insights on the evolution of the CAIA blog and to announce the launch of Portfolio for the Future.
Description: This webcast focused on how alternative data can help private equity firms with post acquisition value creation. Expert speakers from data aggregator Eagle Alpha and data-driven PE fund Growth Curve Capital demonstrated practical examples of how alternative data can be applied to increase the value of portfolio companies.
Description: This webcast focused on how alternative data can help private equity firms with deal origination and due diligence. Expert speakers from data aggregator Eagle Alpha and data consultancy OneFourZero demonstrated practical examples of how alternative data can be applied to solve common problems when sourcing new deals and due delicencing target companies.
Description: Many investors are seeking to add assets to their portfolio that can be effective in hedging increasing rates of inflation. Assets that have been considered to hedge inflation risk include equities, real estate, commodity futures, farmland, timberland, inflation-linked bonds, infrastructure, and master limited partnerships. Each of these assets varies in its ability to hedge inflation risks, as well as in the liquidity provisions.
Description: Bobby Guy, Deal Attorney, Polsinelli and Lisa Phillips, Principal Analyst, Insider Intelligence, discussed the processes and considerations made during a typical private equity M&A deal. This discussion covered items such as the auction process, negotiations, and operational due diligence, brought to life through real-world examples and applications.
Panelists: Bobby Guy, Deal Attorney, Polsinelli, and Lisa Phillips, Principal Analyst, Insider Intelligence
This session on analyzing cryptocurrency fund performance opens with a keynote presentation by Dr. Daniele Bianchi, during which he shares his findings from his latest paper. His presentation is followed by a panel discussion with Sui Chung, CEO of CF Benchmarks, Bastien Buchwalter, Associate Professor of Finance at SKEMA Business School, and Ken Odeluga, Head of Research and Content at CF Benchmarks. The panel shares insights on performance measurement, benchmarking, and portfolio considerations within the crypto asset space.
Allocating to illiquid assets brings an additional factor to the optimization process beyond risk and return: illiquidity. Join William Kinlaw, CFA, Senior Managing Director, Head of State Street Associates, and David Turkington, CFA, Senior Managing Director and Head of Portfolio and Risk Research, State Street Associates, as they discuss how to incorporate illiquidity of asset classes, such as private equity, into the asset allocation and portfolio construction process. This session is moderated by Lydia Ofori, CFA, CAIA, Founder & CEO, Hunter Labs Technologies.
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