Research and Markets: Exposed to the J-Curve: Understanding and Managing Private Equity Fund Investments

October 16, 2009 10:34 AM EDT

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/0c8a63/exposed_to_the_jc) has announced the addition of the "Exposed to the J-Curve: Understanding and Managing Private Equity Fund Investments" report to their offering.

How can institutional and private investors safely invest into private equity?

Two experienced market practitioners provide you with a review of the private equity fund industry and a description of all the relevant management issues of fund investments, from a day-to-day and a portfolio perspective to indirect investment vehicles like funds of funds and securitised notes.

Learn how to think independently and avoid succumbing to the traps of private equity.

This book includes:

    --  A discussion of private equity as an asset class and its place within an
        alternative investment programme.
    --  Guidance on investment into funds, including a behind-the-scenes look at
        the relationship between the fund investor and the fund manager.
    --  Portfolio management of fund investments including the latest cash-flow
        models and their use to avoid liquidity squeezes and over-allocation.
    --  An examination of the different types of risks faced by private equity
        investors and how these can be minimised.
    --  An explanation of how investors can outsource these tasks - the relative
        merits of funds of funds and CFOs, listed products or secondary
        transactions.

This is the first book to discuss the relationship between the limited partners and the general partner, providing an undisguised and independent look behind the scenes, and explain the core aspects of this industry from the perspective of two insiders.

An indispensable reference for institutional practitioners and private equity lawyers, as well as students and academics who seek to understand the dynamics of the complex world of private equity.

Author biographies

Ulrich Grabenwarter is head of division for Venture Capital Operations at the European Investment Fund (EIF), and responsible for a portfolio of nearly 100 private equity funds and euro1 billion under management. Prior to EIF, he worked for several years at the European Investment Bank in the Directorate for Financing Operations in Germany and Austria, executing structured finance operations in the corporate and financial sector and private equity fund of fund investments. He was the personal adviser of the Austrian Management Board Member at EIB. He began his career at PriceWaterhouseCoopers in the Audit and later Finance Consulting Department, specialising in derivatives for investment and risk management purposes including their use in hedge funds.

Dr Tom Weidig is the author of several works on private equity funds, funds of funds, and the impact of Basel II. His study 'The Risk Profile of Private Equity' has been publicised and endorsed by the European Venture Capital Association, and translated into German and French. He holds a Master of Science in Theoretical Physics from Imperial College London, and a PhD from the University of Durham. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Manchester, and a visiting researcher at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. Leaving physics behind, he then worked as a risk analyst in derivatives for the US investment bank Bear Stearns in London. He is currently an independent consultant, and also worked for the European Investment Fund researching and modelling private equity funds.

Key Topics Covered:

Part I: Private equity fund investments: an alternative asset class

    --  The private equity fund as the intermediary in an expert market
    --  Why invest in private equity funds?
    --  The private equity fund industry
    --  The investment focus of private equity funds
    --  Performance of private equity funds
    --  Asset allocation to and within private equity

Part II Being a private equity fund investor

    --  Evaluating an investment opportunity
    --  Assessing terms and conditions - what to watch out for
    --  The legal documentation - how to protect your investment
    --  Avoiding or managing conflict of interest
    --  Investment monitoring and crisis management

Part III Managing a portfolio of private equity fund investments

    --  The challenges of portfolio and risk management in private equity
    --  Information for risk and portfolio management
    --  Monitoring a portfolio
    --  Forecasting the future portfolio
    --  Steering the portfolio
    --  Advanced cash flow modelling

Part IV Alternative private equity investment vehicles

    --  Helping institutional investors to access private equity
    --  Funds of funds
    --  Secondary transactions
    --  Securitisation and structured instruments in private equity
    --  Conclusion

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/0c8a63/exposed_to_the_jc

    Source: Research and Markets

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