Measuring Institutional Investors’ Skill at Making Private Equity Investments
Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
Fisher College of Business Working Paper No. 2016-03-14
Charles A. Dice Center Working Paper No. 2016-14
82 Pages Posted: 21 Aug 2016 Last revised: 1 May 2018
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Measuring Institutional Investors’ Skill at Making Private Equity Investments
Measuring Institutional Investors’ Skill from Their Investments in Private Equity
Date Written: April 17, 2018
Abstract
Using a large sample of institutional investors’ investments in private equity funds raised between 1991 and 2011, we estimate the extent to which investors’ skill affects their returns. Bootstrap analyses show that the variance of actual performance is higher than would be expected by chance, suggesting that some investors consistently outperform. Extending the Bayesian approach of Korteweg and Sorensen (2017), we estimate that a one standard deviation increase in skill leads to an increase in annual returns of between one and two percentage points. These results are stronger in the earlier part of the sample period and for venture funds.
Keywords: Institutional Investors, Private Equity, Investment Skill, Markov Chain Monte Carlo
JEL Classification: G11, G23, G24
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