The Venture Capital Industry and Private Equity Markets

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Jesse Reyes is a leading private equity research expert, providing research or advisory services to the private equity industry for over 30 years. His lectures will focus on the venture capital and private equity industries from the limited partner investor's perspective. Topics include (1) an introduction to the private equity ecosystem, including its structure, participants, history, and trends; (2) institutional private equity investing-examining how private equity investment fits into the institutional investors' asset allocation mix; (3) an examination of private equity performance measurement and trends and how structural differences in private equity investments make optimized allocation decisions challenging; and (4) emerging issues facing the private equity industry, such as new regulatory initiatives, fundraising and market efficiency challenges. There is an assigned problem set or a small topic research report to be completed for class credit. (MHA-EL)