Daniel Hobohm analyses more than 17 000 investments by more than 1800 international investors in more than 2400 private equity and venture capital funds over the last two decades. He compares different investor types in their fund preferences, home bias and investor responses to market shocks....

Alternative Investments, die sich durch ihr Streben nach marktphasenunabhängigen, absoluten Renditen auszeichnen, sind in den letzten Jahren verstärkt in den Fokus institutioneller Investoren gerückt. Damit erhalten auch die angebotenen Produktstrukturen auf Hedgefonds und Private Equity...

This paper offers a quantitative description of European private equity markets and compares the recent development in these markets with the development of the US venture capital market. Moreover, the paper addresses the differences between private equity investors acting in a single national...