These books provide a comprehensive guide to investing best practices, enabling readers to better understand the inner workings of the private equity model. This understanding might help them incorporate some approaches into their business, enhance their interaction with private equity firms or in some cases set them on the path of becoming successful private equity investors themselves.
Book Details:
- Author: Claudia Zeisberger
- ISBN: 9781119328032
- Year Published: 2017
- Pages: 250
- BISAC: BUS027000, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/Finance
About the Book and Topic:
These books provide a comprehensive guide to investing best practices, enabling readers to better understand the inner workings of the private equity model. This understanding might help them incorporate some approaches into their business, enhance their interaction with private equity firms or in some cases set them on the path of becoming successful private equity investors themselves.
Private equity is highly effective capitalism, or what is sometimes colloquially referred to as capitalism on steroids. Private equity often removes inefficiencies and turns under-performing companies into healthier and more dynamic ones. At times however, the industry is criticized as a short-sighted asset stripper, which destroys jobs and over-leverages its companies. The complexity of private equity has confused many casual observers including journalists. They attribute the success of the industry either to some mythical secret sauce or a ruthless approach to cost cutting and asset stripping. In the authors experience, however, the competitive advantage of the private equity investment model comes from diligent application of best practices, as described in this book, a keen focus on big drivers of risk and opportunity and, above all, a lot of hard work.
CONTENT NEED (TRENDING) – These books fill a void in existing private equity literature by directly addressing advisors and business owners key concerns regarding private equity. Critical lessons for students at MBA and Executive MBA programmes to learn when engaging with these critical subjects. The texts consolidate disparate information into a clearly-presented, user-friendly format with references in each book guiding readers to additional resources in the other. GLOBAL REACH AND CORPORATE SUPPORT – Full support for the book from INSEAD and its Global Private Equity Initiative (GPEI), including mailing list to 2,000+ alumni actively practicing in private equity globally. Claudia acts as an advisor to many clients including family offices, SWFs and regulators as well as financial institutions such as Deutsche Bank, Berisford Capital Markets Group and Dresdner Bank. She expects interest in the content from these – including possible bespoke versions of the book. ACADEMIC ADOPTIONS – The book will be adopted for the courses taught by Claudia and Michael at INSEAD; student numbers fluctuate between 100-300 per bi-annual semester (depending on the classes being run).
About the Author
Claudia Zeisberger is an INSEAD Senior Affiliate Professor of Decision Sciences and Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise. She is concurrently the Academic Director of INSEADs Global Private Equity Initiative (GPEI), one of INSEADs centers of excellence, which she founded in 2008 to focus the schools capabilities s research interests include private equity in emerging markets, the institutionalization of SE Asian financial markets, and project finance. Prior to moving to Singapore in 2009, Bowen spent five years in the New York hedge fund industry in trading and business development roles.