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What Private Equity Investors Think They Do for the Companies They Buy

Harvard Business Review

We also know that private equity funds have outperformed public equity markets over the last three decades , even after the fees they charge are accounted for. ” PE firms typically take three types of value increasing actions — financial engineering, governance engineering, and operational engineering.

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Why Those Guys Won the Economics Nobels

Harvard Business Review

You know, the future value of money, the present value of money — money today is worth more than in the future because you can invest it and get interest. Back in the ‘60s, people developed the capital asset pricing model [CAPM] as a way to do that. And the theory that was available then was CAPM.

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