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2024 PERC Symposium & Best Paper Award
The Private Equity Research Consortium (PERC) convened on Nov 14-15, 2024, in Chapel Hill for the 16th annual research symposium. Over the course of two days, academic researchers and industry practitioners gathered for a discussion of the most pressing issues in private equity. See this year's best paper awardee...
MoreIPC Research Update & Event Schedule – Aug 2024
In case you missed it - read the latest quarterly update from the Institute for Private Capital, with newly released research and insider insights on evolving trends in private equity, and an exciting line-up of fall research events.
MoreNew Research Indicates Public Firms Unique Role in a Dynamic Economy
In this new paper, authors examine the relationship between idiosyncratic volatility and the number of listed firms, and explain this relationship through Schumpeterian creative destruction. Comparatively, available data does not show a strong connection between changes in Census firms and creative destruction.
MoreNew Analysis Finds SBICs Outperform Peers
In a new IPC study "The Performance of Small Business Investment Companies", we find that Small Business Investment Companies (SBICs) funds perform quite well relative to non-SBIC peers in IRR, MOIC, and PME, yielding both positive average and median peer-adjusted performance.
MoreIPC Research Update & Event Schedule – May 2024
In case you missed it - read the latest monthly update from The Institute for Private Capital.
MoreIPC Hosts 16th Annual Alternative Investments Conference
IPC was pleased to welcome over 240 investment professionals to this year's sold out Alternative Investments Conference. Attendees represented the entire finance community, including LPs from state pension plans, foundations and endowments, GPs, funds of funds, service providers, and academics. More
2023 PERC Symposium Best Paper Award
The Private Equity Research Consortium (PERC) recently convened on November 2-3, in Chapel Hill for the 15th annual research symposium. Attendees voted "Do Investors Overvalue Startups? Evidence from the Junior Stakes of Mutual Funds" as this years best paper. More
2022 PERC Symposium Best Paper Award
This year’s award goes to Minmo Gahng and Blake Jackson (University of Florida, Warrington College of Business) for their paper Selling Private Equity Fees. Their paper examines private equity (PE) firms’ minority stake sales and the impact of these sales on agency frictions with fund investors. More
Is the U.S. Economy at a Boiling Point, or Just Simmering?
As the U.S. continues to face COVID-19 and supply chain disruptions, experts debate just how worked up the economy is in its current state. This Kenan Insight serves as the first in a two-part point-counterpoint series, in which Kenan Institute Executive Director Greg Brown and Chief Economist Gerald Cohen hash out the arguments both for and against an overheating economy. More
New IPC Tool Helps Companies Evaluate DEI Goals
The Institute for Private Capital’s newly-released interactive model that aims to help private equity leaders assess diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) goals was featured in a report by Ernst & Young. More
