This paper is the first systematic analysis of the impact of diversification on the performance of private equity funds …. A unique data set allows the exact evaluation of diversification across the dimensions financing stages, industries, and … countries. Very different levels of diversification can be observed across sample funds. While some funds are highly specialized …

This paper studies the relationship between portfolio diversification and fund performance, based on an unexplored …, which allows measuring the concentration of the fund portfolios towards individual companies, industrial, and geographical … focus. Our results suggest that diversification within, but not across industries, associates with higher buyout fund …

We study the relative diversification potential of American Depository Receipts (ADRs) as compared to the underlying … shares as well as the relative diversification potential of closed-end country funds as compared to the foreign market … underlying shares are more useful for diversification purposes than ADRs and country funds when the U.S. stock market returns are …

(FOFs). In this paper we examine a new database that separates out for the first time the effects of diversification (the … variance reducing effects of diversification peter out once FOFs hold more than 20 underlying hedge funds. Yet the majority of … FOFs are more diversified than this. We find a new and surprising result that this excess diversification actually …

benefits of sector investments and their diversification. This paper analysis the risk, return and diversification benefits of …

international diversification. Our approach is motivated by the increasing evidence that size (SMB), book-to-market (HML), and … factor diversification are significant for both in- and out-of-sample periods, and for a realistic range of additional …

competitive advisory fees across their funds. Our findings suggest that the diversification of fund families' asset flows is an …