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Over the past 20 years, the private equity industry went from a cottage industry to a powerful juggernaut that touches every corner of the global economy. Totalling $5 trillion of investments, private equity constitutes an important investment allocation for public and corporate pension funds, university endowments, non-profit foundations, hospitals, insurance companies, families, and sovereign wealth funds worldwide.
There's no more important sector of institutional portfolios or the global economy to understand than private equity. Private equity owned businesses are everywhere around us and touch every aspect of our daily lives.
In
Private Equity Deals, Ted Seides gives you an insight to the conversations that typically happen behind the closed doors of institutional investors and private equity managers. Through a series of case studies across different types of private equity transactions,
Private Equity Deals shares the dynamics of deal making, companies, and ownership that make private equity a force in the world.
About the author
Ted Seides, CFA has spent 25 years as an institutional investor, allocating money to managers. He started in 1992 at the Yale University Investments Office, seven years after David Swensen arrived at Yale. Ted spent five years learning under David's tutelage and departed to attend Harvard Business School shortly before David wrote the bible in the industry, Pioneering Portfolio Management.
In 2017, Ted launched the Capital Allocators podcast, a series of interviews with leading Chief Investment Officers. The show reached four million downloads in August 2020.
Barron's,
Business Insider, and
Value Walk each named it among the top investing podcasts. He also advises asset managers and allocators across business strategy, audio content, and investing.
Ted writes opinion pieces for
Institutional Investor, wrote a blog for the CFA Institute's
Enterprising Investor and guest publications for the late Peter L. Bernstein's Economics and Portfolio Strategy.
Summary
Shares the dynamics of deal making, companies, and ownership that make private equity a force in the world
