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THOUGHT LEADERS IN PRIVATE EQUITY

The Coller Institute of Private Equity is the forum of choice for the exchange of views and analysis of trends and policy issues in private equity.

Our location in London gives us a unique opportunity to bring together practitioners, policy makers, regulators, senior executives and graduate students to conduct research and share information in an independent forum.

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Private Equity Findings launched in 2009 has a hard copy distribution of over 30,000.
Showcases best current research from leading academics and debates their findings with renowned practitioners.
Do you agree or have another view? Email Us collerpe@london.edu. We’ll publish the best.

Issue 6 will be released on the 28th of May. Click here for Findings.

Relevant. Accessible. Informative. You’ve read our thoughts - we’d like to hear Your Perspective.

INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE EQUITY

Co Authored by Professors Eli Talmor, Chairman of the Coller Institute, and Florin Vasvari

A unique joint practitioner and academic perspective.
Case studies drawn from the Coller Institute catalogue.
Supported and augmented by a companion website.

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COLLER PRIZE 2011

Recognising the world's best student research in private equity.

Best Management Report.
Best Case Study.
PhD Prize.

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PRIVATE EQUITY. THE MASTERCLASS

"Buying well, selling well or managing the portfolio; what's more important to value creation?"

London Business School together with the Coller Institute of Private Equity combines the leading academic private equity findings with practitioner best practice in the Coller Institute Masterclass.

Next MasterClass is on 21 March 2012. Quote CW1010. Find out more

COLLER CONFIDENTIAL – HAVE YOUR SAY | SHARE YOUR IDEAS

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Private Equity Findings App

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27 January 2012

We are delighted to announce that a Private Equity Findings App is available for all 5 issues of our publication. The Apps are designed to enhance your overall viewing experience of Findings and is co...

The Performance of Private Equity

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13 February 2012

Coller Institute Exclusive – New Ground Breaking Research on Private Equity Performance Professor Chris Higson, London Business School Private equity is often perceived as an opaque industry. Unlike...

Private Equity Findings | Issue 5 - Winter 2011

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13 December 2011

Private Equity Findings Issue 5 is now available for download on our website. We are also delighted to announce that a Private Equity Findings App will be available for all 5 issues of our publicat...

Findings receives High Commendation at the Corporate Communication Awards

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24 November 2011

Private Equity Findings, the global publication of the Coller Institute of Private Equity at London Business School, has received a High Commendation during last night’s Corporate Communication Awards...

COLLER PRIZE EVENING | LESSONS FROM TIM PARKER

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07 November 2011

2011 Coller Prize Winner - SunRay Renewable Energy - Private Equity in the Sunshine

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02 November 2011

2011 Coller Prize Winner - Masters Category

2011 Coller Prize Runner-up: A Case Study on an Alliance of a Corporate with a Private Equity Fund

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04 November 2011

Runner-up in the 2011 Coller Prize (Masters Category). Note that the paper is not currently available due to confidentiality.

2011 Coller Prize Winner Presentation - Do Equity Markets Affect Innovation - Evidence from Initial Public Offerings

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02 November 2011

2011 Coller Prize Winner - PhD Category

2011 Coller Prize Runner-up Presentation - Manager Networks and Success of Venture Capital Syndications

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02 November 2011

2011 Coller Prize Runner-up - PhD Category

PRIVATE EQUITY | THE MASTERCLASS | AN INVESTMENT OR EXPENSE?

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31 October 2011

Can you really be taught Private Equity or is it, as Oscar Wilde might have suggested, something you have to experience firsthand? Is a Business School able to manage the gap between rigour and reson...

Findings shortlisted for two international publishing awards

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20 October 2011

Private Equity Findings, the global publication of the Coller Institute of Private Equity at London Business School, has been nominated for two international publishing awards. The biannual publicati...

Quoted Impact Innovation Funds - Social Investment's Next Step?

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10 October 2011

Can public equity markets provide the step-change needed in capital supply to the Social Impact sector? I’ll never forget sitting in an LBS classroom ten years ago when a visiting KKR executive (who s...

Thrusting Social Investment into the Mainstream

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21 September 2011

Last week, the Coller Institute co-hosted an event with the Deloitte Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (“DIEE”) on Venture Philanthropy and Social Ventures. A first class panel comprising D...

PRIVATE EQUITY - A BAD BUSINESS?

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27 September 2011

Well according to the FT today that may be the belief of Ed Miliband as he espouses his plans for promoting ethical business behaviour during his inaugural speech as party leader at the Labour Party C...

Interview with Daniela Barone Soares, Chief Executive, Impetus Trust

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16 September 2011

FACE VALUES: DANIELA BARONE SOARES THE VENTURE PHILANTHROPIST The concept of venture philanthropy has gained ground over the last decade. It seeks to bring the discipline of venture capital to...

International Private Equity: A Case Study Textbook

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15 April 2011

We are delighted to bring you details of the recently published book by Eli Talmor and Florin Vasvari of London Business School and its Coller Institute of Private Equity, International Private Equity...

Issue 4 - Spring 2011

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31 May 2011

Issue 4 of Private Equity Findings is now out! Findings is a core component of our primary mission in the establishment of a world-renowned research centre and debating forum for private equity. By...

2011 Private Equity Findings Symposium Keynote - Nader Tavassoli, Professor of Marketing, London Business School

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02 June 2011

2011 Private Equity Findings Symposium Keynote Speech - Nader Tavassoli, Professor of Marketing, London Business School.

2011 Private Equity Findings Symposium Keynote - Gillian Tett, US Managing Editor, Financial Times

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02 June 2011

Gillian Tett's keynote speech at the 2011 Private Equity Findings Symposium.

2011 Private Equity Findings Symposium Keynote - Viral Acharya, Professor of Finance, NYU Stern

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02 June 2011

2011 Symposium Keynote Speech - Viral Acharya, Professor of Finance, NYU Stern.

The Global Venture Capital and Private Equity Country Attractiveness Index

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01 January 2011

The Global Venture Capital and Private Equity Country Attractiveness Index seeks to measure the attractiveness of countries for investors in venture capital and private equity limited partnerships. ...

LEADERSHIP IN PRIVATE EQUITY : A POSTSCRIPT - SPRING CLEANING

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29 March 2011

Is it just me or the changing of seasons? For no sooner than I write something on leadership in private equity and the papers seem awash with stories of management changes. Am I just more attuned to t...

LEADERSHIP IN PRIVATE EQUITY

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11 March 2011

Last week the Coller Institute hosted an event entitled "Leadership Risk in Private Equity".Rain forests have been destroyed and a significant volume of CO2 exhaled by the weight of literature and num...

GLOBAL PRIVATE EQUITY REPORT 2011

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21 March 2011

This report provides an excellent review of the past year (2010) and where the focus will be in 2011 for both GPs and LPs. It also makes several references to academic studies highlighting the impac...

LBS Team Wins 11th Annual Wharton Buyout Competition

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03 March 2011

Blog by Brandon Parry, MBA 2012Ten days ago, two teams traveled to Wharton, in Philadelphia, to represent London Business School at the 11th Annual Wharton Buyout Case Competition. The event, which ho...

Catalysing Systemic Change: The Role of Venture Philanthropy

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28 February 2011

Undertaken on behalf of Impetus Trust, this paper looks into the role venture philanthropy can play in catalysing systemic change in relation to pressing social issues such as reducing reoffending rat...

Replicating the Investment Strategy of Buyout Funds Based in the United Kingdom (UK) with Public-Market-Investments

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31 January 2011

This report assesses whether it is possible to emulate the risk-return profile of buyout funds with comparable public market investments and concludes that the buyout fund sample used demonstrates a ‘...

How Regulators Could Help Private Equity

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21 February 2011

This paper does not advocate more regulation but better regulation; where prevention of systemmic risk and the promotion of market efficiency have equal focus. The authors suggest regulations propose...

The Coller Prize Evening 2010

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01 December 2010

The Coller Prize has been an annual fixture of the Coller Institute of Private Equity for five years, recognising the best student research in the field of private equity and venture capital. To refle...

London Business School wins Private Equity Case Study Competition

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27 October 2010

The Coller Institute of Private Equity is pleased to announce that a team of MBA students representing London Business School won the inaugural European MBA Private Equity Case Competition held on 23/...

Private Equity Fund Level Return Attribution:Evidence from U.K. Based Buyout Funds

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01 June 2010

This report investigates components of private equity buyout fund returns using a unique anonymised dataset provided by a major Fund of Funds, Pantheon Ventures, in collaboration with BVCA. In contr...

Monitoring Managers, Does it Matter?

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17 December 2009

We test under what circumstances boards discipline managers and whether such interventions improve performance

Private Equity; Public Loss

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25 July 2010

At the Annual MVision Roundtable held on 3rd November 2010, a panel chaired by Professor Francesca Cornelli, Academic Director debated "PE a superior governance model - myth or reality" drawing from t...

BVCA Report - Performance of UK Based PE Funds

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17 September 2010

Presentation by Florin Vasvari at Coller Institute Media Breakfast on 17 September 2010.

Ex Ante Efficiency of Ex Post Managerial Ownership

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01 April 2008

This paper highlights the difficulty of properly balancing incentives to managers.

Coverage of the 2011 Coller Prize in Private Equity

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Francesca Cornelli

BA (Bocconi) PhD (Harvard)

Academic Director for the Coller Institute

Professor Francesca Cornelli is the current Academic Director for the Coller Institute. Professor of Finance at London Business School, Professor Cornelli has a broad set of research interests within the spheres of corporate finance, industrial and transition economics. As a member of the core research team she worked on the inaugural private equity work commissioned by the World Economic Forum – “Globalization of Alternative Investments”. Professor Cornelli is also a Fellow of Centre for Economic Policy Research, Associate Editor for the Journal of Finance, Associate Editor of Journal of Financial Intermediation and Editorial Board member of Review of Economic Studies.

Ann Iveson

BSc (Econ, LSE), MSc Sloan Fellow (London Business School); ACA

Senior Advisor

Ann was Executive Director at the Coller Institute of Private Equity for the past two years (2008-2009) playing a key role in defining and implementing many of the strategic initiatives and projects. She has extensive banking experience within the fields of credit, fixed income sales, derivatives and capital markets. She headed credit at CSFB and European Corporate Origination at BNP Paribas. She qualified as a Chartered Accountant with PriceWaterhouse Coopers and holds a BSc (Econ) from LSE and is a London Business School Sloan Fellow. Ann is a member of the Advisory Board.

Hans Holmen

B Com (University of Adelaide); Grad Dip Applied Finance and Investment (FINSIA)

Executive Director

Hans has 9 years of finance and investment experience spanning across principal investment, project finance, relationship management and credit management in UK and Australia. Prior to joining the Coller Institute, Hans worked for Merrill Lynch Europe in its Global Private Equity division, specialising in infrastructure investment. His role included both the assessment of investment opportunities and fund raising with respect to a new global infrastructure fund. Prior to this, Hans worked at Commonwealth Bank of Australia (“CBA”) in its Project Finance division where he was involved in the origination, assessment and execution of a variety of corporate and social infrastructure transactions. He also worked as a relationship manager and credit analyst within CBA. Hans holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Adelaide and a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment from the Financial Services Institute of Australasia.

Private Equity Club

Private Equity Student Club at London Business School

With over 3,000 members, including 800 current student members, and regular educational events and speakers, the PE/VC club is among the most active of the London Business School’s clubs. The PE/VC club provides a forum for students interested in all aspects and stages of Private Equity and Venture Capital to interact with the broader community and helps them develop the skills and knowledge necessary to build careers in the industry.

Ozan Cigizoglu

(MBA ( London Business School), BSc, Computer Engineering (Purdue University))

Director of Santa Consultants

We would like to introduce our first guest blogger for 2011. Ozan Cigizoglu is an alum, MBA 2007, and now works at Santa Consultants in Turkey. His blog and presentation discusses the rising opportunities for PE in Turkey.

Tim Gocher

Chairman of Dolma Development Fund

Tim is a venture capital and clean-tech executive who is also founder and Chairman of Dolma Development Fund – a non-profit impact investor in Nepal and Ethiopia. After nine years at Deloitte and J.P. Morgan, and an MBA from London Business School, Tim became Managing Director at listed innovation fund Interregnum plc. He has worked across the energy, renewables, technology and urban development sectors. He is co-founder and partner of Academy IP – a New York-based IP commercialisation investor partnering with major, US research universities. He is currently General Manager of Living PlanIT – a company developing and investing in clean-technologies for sustainable urban development.

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COLLER PRIZE EVENING | LESSONS FROM TIM PARKER

07 November 2011

Masters and PhD Prize Winners 2011 announced at Annual Coller Prize Evening Tim Parker's learnings from an impressive career Now in its 6th year, last Wednesday was the Annual Coller Prize for the best case study and management report completed by Masters students at London Business School in the field of venture capital or private equity. In 2010 we also introduced a new category ...

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