Fundamentals of Private Equity
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280x720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Genre: eLearning | Language: English + .srt | Duration: 5 lectures (31 mins) | Size: 349 MB

The fundamentals of private equity funds, investment process, activities and more.
What you'll learn

How a PE fund pipeline works, including sourcing, investing and monitoring past investments
How PE funds, what type of investors allocate to them, and the usual provisions discussed

Requirements

Have a basic knowledge of corporate finance
Have a basic knowledge of investing (asset classes)

Description

This courses covers the fundamentals of the Private Equity practice. It includes considerations such as
- How the Private Equity industry positions itself vis-a-vis other high finance activities like Venture Capital (which is part of it), Hedge Funds, Investment Banking and others;
- The usual types of activities for Private Equity teams throughout the three main sources of a PE fund pipeline: sourcing and vetting opportunities, investing, and post-investment monitoring;
- How Private Funds work, usual provisions and model (blind pool, 5-10y timeframe, restructuring, extensions, the secondaries market) and the J-Curve timing of returns;
- The type of retail and institutional investors allocating to Private Equity, as well as the usual types of provisions discussed;
- How companies change when undertaking an LBO (leveraged buyout), as well as the two ways of creating value for them - financial engineering and operational optimization;

Whether you're an aspiring Private Equity associate, or an existing professional in a different area of high finance looking to know more about the Private Equity industry and practice, this course may be able to assist you.

Who this course is for:

Aspiring PE associates
Aspiring Investment Bankers
Anybody curious about the inner workings of PE