The difficulties of the past year have convinced many observers that current risk management practices are deeply flawed, and that such flaws have contributed greatly to the current financial crisis. In this paper, the author challenges this view by showing the need to distinguish between flawed assessments by risk managers …
A Practitioners’ Guide to Leverage through Downturns
8 months ago Number 1, Winter 2021, Volume 33There is extensive research addressing questions of optimal capital structure. Studies typically focus on estimating the appropriate level of debt …
Should Shareholders Have a Say on Acquisitions?
8 months ago Number 1, Winter 2021, Volume 33Shareholders of U.S. corporations have lost billions of dollars in acquisitions they never approved. In the United Kingdom, the listing …
IPC Oxford Private Equity Research Symposium
2 months ago Number 3, Summer 2021, Volume 33Session I: The Future of Private Equity One of the world’s foremost authorities on global private equity offers four predictions: …
Inequality and Progress
2 months ago Number 3, Summer 2021, Volume 33The author begins by noting that, however much economic inequality has become an obsession in developed countries in the 21st …
Capital Structure and Leverage in Private Equity...
2 months ago Number 3, Summer 2021, Volume 33Private equity capital structures have evolved over time as financial markets and PE firms have created new ways to attract …
MILLSTEIN CENTER-ECGI CONFERENCE
2 months ago Number 3, Summer 2021, Volume 33Board 3.0: Bringing the Private Equity Model to Public Companies In a recent conference organized by Columbia Law School’s Millstein …
Texas Private Equity Conference
2 months ago Number 3, Summer 2021, Volume 33Session I: Fireside Chat with Rich Hall The President of The University of Texas at Austin discusses UTIMCO’s investment strategy …
Downsizing and Value Creation at General Dynamics:...
2 months ago Number 3, Summer 2021, Volume 33Finance theory says that companies in declining industries with excess capacity should transfer capital to other sectors of the economy …
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