Private equity : fund types, risks and returns, and regulation / [edited by] Douglas Cumming.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cumming, Douglas.

Series:

Robert W. Kolb series in finance

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Private equity.

Physical Description:

xv, 608 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, [2010]

Contents:

Introduction to private equity

Institutional investment in private equity : motivations, strategies, and performance

IPOs and other nontraditional fund-raising methods of private equity firms

Listed private equity

The syndication of private equity

The structure of venture capital and private equity fund portfolios

The rise of the PIPE market

Private placements by small public entities : Canadian experience

Hedge funds' activism : a new trend of convergence toward private equity in public firms?

Projection of private equity fund performance : a simulation approach

Value creation in middle-market buyouts : a transaction-level analysis

Risk and return of private equity : an overview of data, methods, and results

Private equity fund selection : how to find true top-quartile performers

Real effects of private equity : empirical evidence and a research agenda

Employment, wage, and productivity effects of private equity transactions

Valuation and (financial) disclosure in the private equity industry : institutional set-up, incentives, and empirical analysis

Private equity regulation : a comparative analysis

International private equity flows

Private equity in emerging markets

Private equity in Europe

Private equity and leveraged buyouts in Italy : to prohibit or not to prohibit, that is the question

Venture capital and private equity in Germany

Private equity in Denmark : capital structure and taxes

Venture capital and private equity in Canada : phasing out an inefficient tax credit.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780470499153

047049915X

OCLC:

299694554