Private Equity Findings Issue 16
Bella Private Markets collaborated with the Coller Research Institute to produce the sixteenth issue of Private Equity Findings, a publication that curates the most important cutting-edge academic research on private equity and brings together leading practitioners to discuss its implications. This issue examines how PE investments may generate important productivity spillovers for the broader market, […]
Best Practices for Angel Networks
In 2019, Bella was commissioned by Victorian state-government funded body LaunchVic to conduct a deep dive into the global investing landscape and to provide recommendations for newly-formed and seasoned angel investors alike. View a summary of the report on LaunchVic’s website here. To request a copy of the full report, please email hello@launchvic.org. THe the […]
Angel Groups: Giving Startups Their Wings
Entrepreneurs and the companies they start are pivotal for stimulating the innovation needed for economies to grow and societies to progress. We all know the stories of the founders who built their global companies out of a one-car garage or their freshman dorm room, but the individuals and groups that provided them the needed funding […]
Digitization: A Path to Creating Value
Have you ever walked into the office and pulled out your phone to check your schedule for the day— only to see a notification that it’s your mother’s birthday? And you forgot to get her a gift. Luckily, you recently sent her flowers for Mother’s Day through the local florist’s new website. The payment information […]
An Intolerance of Failure? Evidence from U.S. Private Equity
In our 2018 Diverse Asset Management Study (found here), we show that the asset management industry is characterized by extremely low levels of diversity in ownership. Overall, diverse-owned managers – defined as asset managers with significant female or ethnic minority ownership – control just 1.3% of all US-based managers’ assets [1]. Our results also indicate […]
2018 Diverse Asset Management Study
Few people would be shocked to learn that the asset management industry remains a [white] boys’ club. But we have the evidence. Our 2018 Diverse Asset Management Firm Assessment (and update to our 2017 diversity study) funded by the Knight Foundation, shows that the industry is characterized by strikingly low levels of diversity. In our […]