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Understanding Private Equity: What You Need to Know

Strategy Driven

This type of funding involves higher minimum capital in comparison with other types of private equity funding and involves longer investment terms too. It primarily involves investing in mutual funds and hedge funds, which offer the opportunity to invest where you may not be able to meet the minimum capital alone.

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High Returns Prove Elusive for Hedge Funds

Harvard Business Review

A composite index of more than 2,000 hedge funds returned 72% over the past decade while charging substantial fees—the 25 highest-paid hedge-fund managers made $21 billion last year, according to the Wall Street Journal. trillion , up from $865 billion a decade ago. Risk management'

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The Apple Maps Debate and the Real Future of Mapping

Harvard Business Review

Even if no-one has been to Albuquerque, it can draw comparisons between the local places and the places you and your friends frequent all over the world. What If Google Had a Hedge Fund? Or, what if you're at the front desk of your newly-discovered B&B and the concierge offers you room options? BIG DATA INSIGHT CENTER. More >>.

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How Banks Can Compete Against an Army of Fintech Startups

Harvard Business Review

By comparison, online lenders face capital costs that can be higher than 10%, sourced from potentially fickle institutional investors like hedge funds. These low-cost and reliable sources of funds are from taxpayer-insured deposits and the Federal Reserve’s discount window.

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How Incentives for Long-Term Management Backfire

Harvard Business Review

The normal culprits for short-termism are short-term-minded hedge-fund managers and activist shareholders, as well as CEOs worried about big bet investments with uncertain paybacks. Today, four out of five S&P 500 companies use a three-year performance period in their long-term incentives.

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Universities Are Missing Out on an Explosive Growth Sector: Their Own

Harvard Business Review

Thus, the asset managers are more comfortable with hedge funds, real estate holdings, and trading strategies than in market opportunities in education. but even my alma mater, Clark University, which has a small endowment by comparison, has actively bought up much of the real estate around it in order to make downtown Worcester, Mass.,

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The Apple Maps Debate and the Real Future of Mapping

Harvard Business Review

Even if no-one has been to Albuquerque, it can draw comparisons between the local places and the places you and your friends frequent all over the world. What If Google Had a Hedge Fund? Or, what if you're at the front desk of your newly-discovered B&B and the concierge offers you room options? BIG DATA INSIGHT CENTER. More >>.