File Size: 4024 KB
Print Length: 245 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0470745967
Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (March 18, 2010)
Publication Date: March 18, 2010
Sold by: Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B003DL3NXE
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This book is what it says - an introduction, a minimalist introduction - but should have "history of" in the title. This book is written somewhat well, however it stakes its format on a historical sense of private equity. There is no real case scenarios, but rather explanations of what past, present and predicted private equity environments are like. It is good reading for knowing the "history" of private equity formations, but no in depth information on how to form or run a private equity.
I found this book an excellent introduction to the terms and processes involved with PE. It is an excellent introduction if you want to invest, buy, sell or just understand better.I'd have loved for it to include recommendations on follow-up books.
Being already familiar with private equity (PE) I enjoyed very much reading the book. Not only it gives a nice overview about what PE is. But it includes a lot of interesting statistics, trends and background information.Contrary to many US centric books, it covers also the European perspective and explains the legal, cultural and marketing differences. It explains the whole lifecycle of PE investments (seed, venture, growth, buy-out, turn around and vulture capital) in a complete and illustrative way. Some of the topics are kept quite short (investment process, valuation) but this can be read in other (more traditional) text books.What I also appreciated very much are the many critical remarks about PE like e.g. Is it still creating value? FAS 157 and market valuation! PE and Ethics! etc.Last but not least: The book is full of cartoons, which invite you to pause, think and smile!
I found this book very easy written for someone who would like to understand how Private Equity works.The contents are very well structured providing clear information in the topic of the private equity. The written stile is very friendly and the figures are providing information, which is rather meaningful, with direct or indirect reference to the text. I like the idea of cartoons that make the reader to enjoy even more reading this textbook.I fully recommend this book for those who would like to invest in learning as well as in private equity.
This book includes all the necessary concepts for someone with knowledge in finance to start operating within the Private Equity World. Really nice reading!
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