Research and Markets has published, “Exposed to the J-Curve: Understanding and Managing Private Equity Fund Investments” in hopes of answering the question, “How can institutional and private investors safely invest into private equity?”
In the book, two market practitioners provide a review of the private equity fund industry and a description of relevant management issues of fund investments, from a day-to-day and a portfolio perspective to indirect investment vehicles like funds of funds and securitized notes.
This book also includes a discussion of private equity as an asset class and its place within an alternative investment program, guidance on investment into funds, including a behind-the-scenes look at the relationship between the fund investor and the fund manager, portfolio management of fund investments including the latest cash-flow models and their use to avoid liquidity squeezes and over-allocation.
It also examines the different types of risks faced by private equity investors and how these can be minimized and attempts to give an explanation of how investors can outsource these tasks–the relative merits of funds of funds and CFOs, listed products or secondary transactions.