Patient Capital - The Challenges and Promises of Long-Term Investing

How to overcome barriers to the long-term investments that are essential for solving the world's biggest problemsThere has never been a greater need for long-term investments to tackle the world's most difficult problems, such as climate change, human health, and decaying infrastructure. And it is increasingly unlikely that the public sector will be willing or able to fill this gap. If these critical needs are to be met, the major pools of long-term, patient capital-including pensions, sovereign wealth funds, university endowments, and wealthy individuals and families-will have to play a large role. In this accessible and authoritative account of long-term capital investment, two leading experts on the subject, Victoria Ivashina and Josh Lerner, highlight the significant hurdles facing long-term investors and propose concrete ways to overcome these difficulties.

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Victoria Ivashina and Josh Lerner

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• Authors: Victoria Ivashina, Victoria Lerner Ivashina, Josh Lerner
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9780691217086
• ISBN: 978-0-691-21708-6
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 235 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration; Business & Economics / Investments & Securities / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Decision-Making & Problem Solving, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Public Finance, Welfare economics, Central / national / federal government policies, Public finance, Development economics & emerging economies, Investment & securities, Investment and securities, Development economics and emerging economies, Central government policies, Public finance and taxation, Entrepreneurship / Start-ups