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Direct deals or fund investments? The importance of considering each family office’s unique needs, risk tolerance and long-term objectives.

Private Equity Insights

This strategy involves investing directly in ventures where the principal remains actively involved, leveraging their expertise and competencies in a particular field. While direct investments can o er high rewards, they also come with higher risks, including the potential for losing all the initial capital.

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Are Alternative Investments the Key to Diversifying Your Portfolio?

Fortune Financial

Private Equity Private equity is a form of alternative investment that involves investing in privately-held companies. It encompasses strategies such as venture capital, leveraged buyouts and investing directly in publicly-traded private equity firms. trillion in buyouts, highlighting its resilience and impressive growth.

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Are Alternative Investments the Key to Diversifying Your Portfolio?

Fortune Financial

Private Equity Private equity is a form of alternative investment that involves investing in privately-held companies. It encompasses strategies such as venture capital, leveraged buyouts and investing directly in publicly-traded private equity firms. trillion in buyouts, highlighting its resilience and impressive growth.

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AIMCo's CIO Talks Total Portfolio Approach, Private Credit and Risk

Pension Pulse

Rather than continuing to plough in capital, the investment team are now thinking more about comparing opportunities across assets and anticipating future trends. Puffer says the pair represents a new level of talent and leadership that is now embedded into investment teams, weighing in on due diligence.

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Suyi Kim on What Drives Success at CPP Investments' Giant PE Portfolio

Pension Pulse

“For a large-scale deal, we have to go to the global investment committee and even to the board in some cases,” she says. Our job is due diligence, and for deals that require a level of speed that makes the due diligence difficult, well, we won’t do the deal. Now, CPP Investments has a long investment horizon.

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The 25 Most Active Independent Sponsors on Axial

Axial

In terms of where to slot us from an investor type – we are unique in the sense that we have owned and operated our own businesses since 2001, invested our own capital and also raised capital from LPs (both institutional and smaller accredited investors).”

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Transcript: Aswath Damodaran

The Big Picture

DAMODARAN: Capital gains then were taxed with 28 percent. Since 2004, the tax rate on dividends and capital gains is 15 percent, 18 percent, 21 percent. The original research actually, the Fama-French paper argued that market capitalization was standing in as a proxy for us, that small companies were riskier than larger companies.

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