Publication

2014 - ProQuest, UMI Dissertation Publishing, Ann Arbor, MI, Michigan

Language

English

Word Count

12,500 words, Guess

Page Count

50 pages

Identifiers

Description

"This study examines how financial reporting practices have shaped private equity's claims to diversification. Despite research showing that private equity lacks unique economic exposure, private equity firms and trade associations continue to promote private equity's diversification as a key investment benefit. I show that returns based on prior methods of valuation understate the economic comovement of private equity with the market, creating a diversification illusion. As private equity valuation methodologies have changed private equity returns reveal increased systematic risk and correlation to equity markets. Moreover private equity firms also encounter higher--not lower--costs when accessing capital under new valuation methods, a finding at odds with public-market research."

Description

This study examines how financial reporting practices have shaped private equity's claims to diversification. Despite research showing that private equity lacks unique economic exposure, private equity firms and trade associations continue to promote private equity's diversification as a key investment benefit. I show that returns based on prior methods of valuation understate the economic comovement of private equity with the market, creating a diversification illusion. As private equity valuation methodologies have changed private equity returns reveal increased systematic risk and correlation to equity markets. Moreover private equity firms also encounter higher--not lower--costs when accessing capital under new valuation methods, a finding at odds with public-market research.

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Other Editions

  • Private equity's diversification illusionProQuest, UMI Dissertation Publishing2014

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