PRIVATE EQUITY – A VIABLE ALTERNATIVE SOURCE OF FUNDING FOR GHANAIAN SMEs By Joseph Ciici Arthur Ghana’s workforce is predominantly employed by the informal sector. This sector of our economy is largely made up of Small and Medium scale Enterprises (SMEs) and sole proprietorships (“one man business”). This is confirmed by available data from the Registrar General which indicates that 90% of companies registered in Ghana are SMEs. Over time‚ this target group has been identified as the catalyst for
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Designing Corporate Ventures (CV) in the Shadow of Private Venture Capital (VC) Henry Chesborough Peter Drucker: Search for innovation needs to be put into seperate organizational components (outside of the ongoing managerial business) in order to stimulate greater innovation and generate additional business growth. But these attemps have only met temporary succes (pattern of cycle: enthusiasm‚ implementation‚ difficulties and termination). Therefore the methods of structuring the corporate
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TASK 1 The statement by Henry Kravis that private equity was in its “golden era” might sound like hubris to the unacquainted observer but may actually not be far off from the reality given the growth of private equity funds under management since the advent of large-scale leveraged buy-outs (LBOs) in the 1980s. Henry Kravis as a principal partner in Kohlberg‚ Kravis & Roberts (KKR) pioneered LBOs in the late 1970s and KKR has been a major private equity firm since having reportedly invested in over
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FIN 527 Alternative Investments | Private Equity | Project 1. | | Wei Chen‚ Ye Zhang | | | Part 1. Performance Measurement for Private Equity a) Summary statistics for venture capital and buyout returns: Histograms of returns: The return distribution of venture capital has a kurtosis of 23.25 and a skewness of 3.63‚ which means it is leptokurtic and skews to the right. It is not close to normal distribution. Mainly due to the high returns in late 1990s during the
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Private Equity in Nigeria An Overview of Nigerian Venture Capital and Private Equity Private Equity in Nigeria Page 2 CONTENT EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3 NIGERIA COUNTRY ANALYSIS 5 TABLES AND EXHIBITS 7 Private Equity in Nigeria Page 3 Executive Summary1 Nigeria is facing an uncertain future as outbreaks of ethnic and religious violence continue to place strains on Africa’s most populated country. With the 2003 elections approaching‚ the continuing battle amongst incumbent politicians
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Private equity Private equity is a source of investment capital from high net worth individuals and institutions for the purpose of investing and acquiring equity ownership in companies. Partners at private equity firms raise funds and manage these monies for the purpose of yielding favorable returns for their shareholder clients‚ typically with an investment horizon between four and seven years. These funds can be used in the purchase of shares of private companies‚ or in public companies
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What is Private Equity? some of us reading this stories‚ the word private equity may seems a little bit unfamiliar. The definition of private equity by the famous Investopedia is as follows‚ “Equity capital that is not quoted on a public exchange.” Simple isn’t it? Example of private equity in Indonesia is the Orang Tua group. So now we understand about private equity‚ but what’s in it for us finance students? The answer is the Private Equity Firm who specializes in dealing about the private
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Raising Equity Capital When a private company decides to raise outside equity capital to fund there firm‚ they can turn several potential sources‚ these include Angel Investors‚ venture capital firms‚ institutional investors and corporate investors. Angel investors are individual investors who buy equity in small private firms (often friends of relatives) and are usually the first round of outside financing typically receiving a sizeable equity share. Venture Capital Firm (VCF) is a limited partnership
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Q2 2012 Private equity roundup — China Private equity roundup is a quarterly newsletter on trends and perspectives related to private equity activity in China. Contacts: Robert Partridge Greater China Private Equity and Transaction Advisory Services Leader robert.partridge@hk.ey.com Michael Buxton Asia-Pacific Private Equity Leader michael.buxton@hk.ey.com Jeff Bunder Global Private Equity Leader jeffrey.bunder@ey.com Philip Bass Global Private Equity Markets Leader philip.bass@ey.com Peter
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0DQXVFULSW &RPPRQ/LQNV&OLFN+HUH7R’RZQORDG The road map for private equity‚ venture capital and hedge funds in Mexico. Alternative assets as an accelerator of credit to firms in emerging markets Roberto Charvel Managing Partner at Vander Capital Partners and Professor at IPADE roberto.charvel@vandercp.com +(52155) 5408.0598 Campos Eliseos 405 Col. Polanco 11560 Mexico DF‚ Mexico Do well functioning stock markets and banks promote long-run economic growth? This is the way that Levine
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