For a long time (in fact even before I joined the PE industry), I used to think about what’s the ideal strategy for making investments (especially PE/VC ones) to earn superior returns, and I had vaguely concluded that deep domain expertise in specific industries was perhaps the only way to beat the market. And a recently released study by BCG reaches the same conclusion. The report concludes that domain expertise and industry networks rather than financial engineering or fund structure is what differentiates top funds from the rest. Frankly, I am quite surprised that almost all funds define their investment criteria by stage and deal size and we haven’t witnessed that many “experiments” with industry specific funds which invest across stages and deal sizes.
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Ideas on industry specific PE funds
Posted by Arun Uday on June 26, 2008
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged: private equity | 1 Comment »
