Business knowledge for IT in private equity [[electronic resource] ] : a complete handbook for IT professionals

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910458930103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : Essvale Corp. Ltd., 2010
• ISBN: 1-282-55286-4; 9786612552861; 1-906096-71-6
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (210 p.)
• Collana: Bizle professional series
• Disciplina: 658.15224
• Soggetti: Private equity; Venture capital; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-184) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Overview of Private Equity""; ""Introduction""; ""Definitions of Private Equity""; ""Private Equity Activities""; ""Major Types of Private Equity""; ""Private Equity Business Model""; ""Characteristics of a HPC""; ""Private Equity Controversy""; ""Brief History of the Development of the Industry""; ""Rationale for Investing in Private Equity""; ""What Attracts Private Equity Firms to Commit to Investments?""; ""Classes of Capital Used by Private Equity Firms""; ""Some Facts about Private Equity""; ""Fee Structure""; ""Some Other Benefits of Private Equity""""Disadvantages of Private Equity""; ""Private Equity as an Alternative Investment""; ""The Advantages of Private Equity over Senior Debt""; ""Private Equity versus Alternative Forms of Financing""; ""Comparison of Private Equity to Hedge Funds""; ""Largest Private Equity Firms""; ""Other Notable Private Equity Firms""; ""Types of Private Equity Investment Funds""; ""Introduction""; ""Primary Means of Private Equity Investment""; ""Different Types of Private Equity Investment Funds""; ""Risk Levels of Private Equity Investments""; ""Overview of How Private Equity Investments Work""""Phases of a ; Company's Development""; ""The Investment Size Debate""; ""Size of the Investee Company""; ""Sector Specialisation""; ""Approach to Portfolio Construction""; ""Liquidity through a Secondary Market""; ""Structure and Global Market Size""; ""Introduction""; ""Structure of the Private Equity Market""; ""Financing Stage and Industry Breakdown""; ""Size of the Global Private Equity Market""; ""The Business Environment""; ""Introduction""; ""Environmental Factors Affecting the Private Equity Industry""; ""Profiles of some Major Players""""Data Providers""; ""Indices""; ""Overview of Buyout""; ""Introduction""; ""Different Types of Buyout Transaction""; ""Roll-up""; ""Leveraged Buyout (LBO)""; ""A Look behind Two Large Buyout Deals""; ""Brief Explanation of a Dividend Recapitalisation and its Risks""; ""Venture Capital""; ""Introduction""; ""Definitions of Venture Capital""; ""Venture Capital Investing""; ""What is a Venture Capitalist?""; ""History of Venture Capital""; ""Venture Capital Firms and Funds""; ""Investment Focus""; ""Differences between VCs and Banks""; ""Venture Capital Funding""""Sectors within which Venture Operates""; ""List of Notable Firms 91""; ""Trends""; ""Introduction""; ""Rise of New Industry Players""; ""Popularity of Funds of Funds""; ""Introduction of Private Equity ETFs""; ""Popularity of Islamic Private Equity""; ""Fundamentals of Private Equity in the MENA Region""; ""Sovereign Wealth Funds and Private Equity""; ""Increasing Popularity of Private Equity Real- estate Funds""; ""Private Equity Investing in Emerging Markets""; ""Private Equity Investment in Clean Energy""; ""The Investment Process""; ""Introduction""; ""Investment Process Target Company's Perspective""

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• Record Nr.: UNINA9910143815403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, N.Y., : "291", 1915-1916
• ISSN: 2330-5983
• Disciplina: 701
• Soggetti: Arts; Art criticism; Critique d'art; periodicals.; Periodicals.; Périodiques.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Periodico