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article - July 12, 2023

Forget What You Know About Picking the Best PE Funds

With the increasing risk of a recessionary market environment, many investors are asking themselves what impact economic cycles have on the private equity industry.

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article - June 21, 2023

Business cycle and resilience in private equity

With the increasing risk of a recessionary market environment, many investors are asking themselves what impact economic cycles have on the private equity industry.

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research - July 3, 2023

Limited Partners versus Unlimited Machines; Artificial Intelligence and the Performance of Private Equity Funds

We assemble a proprietary dataset of 395 private equity (PE) fund prospectuses to analyze fund performance and fundraising success. We analyze both quantitative and qualitative information contained in these documents using econometric methods and machine learning techniques. PE fund performance is unrelated to quantitative information, such as prior performance, and measures of document readability. Measures of fundraising success, in contrast, are correlated to most fund characteristics but are not related to future performance.
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