03.08.2016 - Avoiding the Pitfalls: Invest in Skills for Deal Evaluation
Venture and private equity investment are important components of the portfolios of sovereign wealth funds (SWFs). However, access to these asset classes has come with hefty management fees. For SWFs, there are several advantages to direct investment in venture and private equity deals. Direct investment allows more control over the timing of actual investments. It also allows the SWFs to have more flexibility in their portfolio construction. And most importantly, there are significant savings on management and performance fees. SWF managers need to be adept at analyzing whether their returns will beat the realized return (after fees) offered by venture capital and private equity firms. Unfortunately, ample evidence has shown that this can be very challenging for many SWFs making direct investments...............................................Full Article: Source
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