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- Technology Demand and Competition Drive Globalization in 2003
- By the start of 2003, the increasing need for companies to collaborate with international entities in order to compete globally has presented great opportunities for international investors as well as for entrepreneurs around the world. At the same time, venture firms need to address many short-term challenges such as providing...
- White papers 2003-02-26
- On Equal Terms
- Unlike most other asset classes, private equity fund investing is usually based on the principle that managers and investors enter into a partnership. Investors provide capital and a management fee and in return, managers source and invest in the best opportunities in the expectation that they can realize those investments...
- White papers 2003-03-05
- All Change
- Many firms may be finding it harder to raise money than over the last few years. They may also be struggling to exit their investments and return cash to their investors. Furthermore, they may be under increasing pressure from limited partners to make changes to the terms and conditions of...
- White papers 2003-03-26
- LPs Get a Voice (or two)
- Private equity fund investing is an inherently difficult activity for many investors, faced, as they are with limited information available on funds, markets, and performance. This article shows how the efforts of a couple of organizations are now seeking to address some of the problems faced by limited partners by...
- White papers 2003-04-23
- So Far, so Good
- This article is on the steady growth and progress made by the private equity industry. The private equity industry has come a long way in the last 20 years, developing into a sophisticated and, some would argue, mainstream asset class for investors. However, these developments have not been without cost...
- White papers 2003-06-10
- Institutions Shift Towards Europe
- There is no doubt that the experience of the last few years has affected and informed the investment decisions of European and US investors. This article records some of the results of a new AltAssets survey that highlights a shift away from the US and from venture capital and towards...
- White papers 2003-10-01
- When Access Is an Issue
- The huge growth in the private equity fund of funds market over the last few years can have escaped the notice of few people in the industry. Funds of funds have become an increasingly popular route for institutions to gain exposure to the private equity market - a trend that...
- White papers 2003-10-15
- What Does 'Early Stage' Mean These Days
- As with most industries, the world of private equity is filled with buzzwords that professionals routinely use. Most of these words tend to have slightly different meanings depending on the user. One of these is the concept of 'early-stage' company investment. The concept of early-stage investing means different things to...
- White papers 2003-11-19
- Investor Profiles 2003: A Review
- This article presents the findings of the interviews of investors conducted by Altassets. The issues that preoccupied these institutional investor profile interviewees were alignment of interest, growing concern about secondary buy-outs and investors' roles in the creation of the boom-bust private equity cycle. The conclusion however, is that despite some...
- White papers 2003-02-12
- The Future of Mezzanine
- The European mezzanine market has enjoyed phenomenal growth over the past decade. The supply of attractive deal flow has been high and gross annual returns have been solid. This article reports just how far, can the market grow and how will the rising levels of capital flowing into the market...
- White papers 2003-03-12
- Decision-Making in the Digital Age
- The amount of information produced by private equity investing can be overwhelming, for the firms themselves and for existing and prospective investors. Private equity investing is undoubtedly a data-intensive activity. Yet most firms and their investors do not have adequate systems in place to convert all that information into knowledge...
- White papers 2004-07-01
- How Will we Fare in 2003
- Many private equity firms were entering 2003 in the same spirit, as they started last year - relatively upbeat. Nevertheless, was that optimism justified? The article looks at some of the successes and failures of 2002 and examines some of the key trends, which were likely to play out over...
- White papers 2003-01-15
- Investor Profiles 2002: A Review
- Private equity fund investors had faced a challenging time in 2002. Private equity firms had found that deal flow, especially in the first half of this year, had been patchy or non-existent. As some firms have started to fold, fund investors themselves had been smarting from some of the investment...
- White papers 2002-12-11
- Mezzanine: Alive and Kicking Hard
- It seems then that mezzanine has stepped up to the mark. With the trend for fewer but ever larger buy-outs, the mezzanine market has moved with the times. Until recently, mezzanine funds were relatively modest in size - even those managed by firms that had been in the market for...
- White papers 2002-10-15
- Boom and Bust in the Venture Industry
- The dotcom bubble of the late 90s and the subsequent crash of the public markets have had far-reaching consequences for the venture capital industry worldwide. This article briefly examines whether this can be prevented from happening again? In this extract from The Money of Invention Paul A Gompers and Josh...
- White papers 2003-03-26
- When Will VCs Start Funding Start-Ups?
- It is critically important to the recovery of the US economy that the venture capital industry, especially limited partners and other investors in venture funds encourage financing of early stage innovative technology startups. Any revival of venture capital investment in innovative technology start-ups, in the year 2003 could prove a...
- White papers 2003-05-21
- US VCs Continue Optimism About Market Recovery
- This article reports on the data released by the Mid-Atlantic Venture Association MAVA indicates that private equity investors in the region continue to have a positive attitude about market recovery, as evidenced in the results from nine consecutive quarterly surveys. In the fourth quarter of 2004 results, there was early...
- White papers 2004-11-11
- Advent of Corporate Investors
- Although Silicon Valley is the birthplace of technologies, an increasing number of global technology giants are directing their attention to the Asian market to search for new technologies as part of their corporate expansion plans. In the beginning of the fourth quarter of the year, Motorola Inc. declared its interest...
- White papers 2004-12-14
- What Do Entrepreneurs Pay for Venture Capital Affiliation?
- This article summarizes the paper titled, "What Do Entrepreneurs Pay for Venture Capital". It says that in the minds of entrepreneurs working to grow their fledgling technology companies, the intangibles brought to the table by venture capital investors are often worth a lot more than money itself. In seeking venture...
- White papers 2004-08-05
- The Building Blocks for Success
- Close observers of the private equity fundraising market cannot have failed to notice the increasing numbers of funds looking to attract significant early investors - often known as cornerstone investors - over the last 18 months or so. More and more funds in the market are looking for cornerstone investors....
- White papers 2004-03-12
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