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Private Equity Unchained

In: Private Equity Unchained

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  • Thomas Meyer

    (LDS Partners)

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Private equity has come this far without much said on the subject of strategy, so why start now? Newcomers may find it surprising that until fairly recently strategy did not even play a significant role in the management of illiquid investments at all, and what many investors call ‘strategy’ has been more akin to ‘tactics’ or ‘learned reflexes’. Even large institutions still appear to manage private equity on such a case-by-case basis. But the environment has changed, the industry has matured, more players seek to deploy ever larger amounts in a market where opportunities necessarily become difficult to identify and access. The few principles that institutional investors have relied on up till now have been anchored in a less competitive past. Nick Cavalla from Cambridge’s endowment is not alone in his assessment: ‘But we think, structurally, private equity […] is a much, much harder business than it was 2002 to 2007.’1

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  • Thomas Meyer, 2014. "Private Equity Unchained," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Private Equity Unchained, chapter 0, pages 267-272, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-28682-6_25
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137286826_25
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