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2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

7.  Private Equity/Venture Capital Investments

Author : Ewelina Sokołowska

Published in: The Principles of Alternative Investments Management

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

The sector of venture capital investments is assumed to date back to the year 1946, when Georges Doriot, R. Flanders, K. Comptone, M. Griswold and other partners founded the American Research and Development Corporation. Their goal was to invest in the stocks characterized by a low level of liquidity or in the securities of newly established companies (Swedroe and Kizer 2010).

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General partner is also an investor. Similarly as in hedge funds, financial involvement of managers is meant to motivate them and help them identify with the fund’s politics.
 
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Metadata
Title
Private Equity/Venture Capital Investments
Author
Ewelina Sokołowska
Copyright Year
2016
Book
The Principles of Alternative Investments Management

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-13214-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-13215-0

Copyright Year: 2016

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13215-0_7