Bella Private Markets collaborated with the Coller Research Institute to produce the seventeenth 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 the extent to which value is actually created through buy-and-build PE strategies, new research exploring the question of PE versus public market performance from various angles, and a discussion of new findings around gender bias in investment selection, among other topics.
Authors
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Alex Billias is Partner and Chief Operating Officer of Bella Private Markets, responsible for the execution and delivery of the firm's engagements and for its strategic direction. He leads Bella's development of quantitative tooling, including Monte Carlo simulation software for modeling portfolio cash flows and the firm's performance benchmarking solutions. His project work spans research into the representation and performance of diverse-owned firms as well as strategic consulting for global private equity and venture capital firms. He is a CFA charterholder.
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Josh Lerner is Managing Partner of Bella Private Markets. His work on venture capital and private equity is collected in three books, including Venture Capital and Private Equity: A Casebook, now in its fifth edition, and the textbook Venture Capital, Private Equity, and the Financing of Entrepreneurship. He is a recipient of the Swedish government's Global Entrepreneurship Research Award and the Cheng Siwei Award for Venture Capital Research.
