Managing Diversified Portfolios: What Multi-Business Firms Can Learn from Private Equity

✍ Scribed by Daniel O. Klier (auth.)

Publisher: Physica-Verlag Heidelberg
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 307
Series: Contributions to Management Science
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Two trends recently dominated the corporate landscape: the success of Private Equity as a major force in the market for corporate control and the pressure on diversified companies to refocus. Private Equity firms have experienced unrivaled growth with investments in broadly diversified business portfolios, while multi-business firms have come under pressure from capital markets to divest unrelated activities. Therefore, one can only wonder what traditional multi-business firms can learn from Private Equity.

This study investigates Private Equity portfolio diversification, management models, and the opportunities for multi-business firms to apply the Private Equity toolbox. Following a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between diversification and performance, the study profiles Private Equity management models and links each model with performance. The study closes by proposing ways for multi-business firms to apply Private Equity key success factors in a corporate environment.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Introduction....Pages 1-8
Diversification in Corporations....Pages 9-52
Introduction to the Private Equity Industry and the Role of Diversification....Pages 53-95
General Research Design....Pages 97-110
Empirical Part I: Diversification and Performance....Pages 111-173
Empirical Part II: Managing Diversified Portfolios....Pages 175-231
Conclusion and Outlook....Pages 233-241
Back Matter....Pages 243-295

✦ Subjects

Finance/Investment/Banking; Business/Management Science, general

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