INSEAD - Global Private Equity Initiative

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Global Private Equity Initiative (GPEI) @ INSEAD
The private equity model has in the past decades created considerable wealth and employment in the most advanced economies. However, future growth will hinge on bringing the benefits of professionally-managed active investing to regions with different institutions, talent pools, and types of opportunities. Traditional private equity categories may need to be re-thought in fast-growth markets. The industry as a whole would benefit in a number of ways from rigorous research that sheds light on puzzles within private equity. INSEAD sees a role to play by delivering original research and insight for the limited partners and general partners that channel growth capital to privately-held enterprises. We launched the Global Private Equity Initiative (GPEI) in August 2009 to combine the energies and talents of the school's research and educational capabilities with INSEAD’s alumni and global professionals in the PE industry. INSEAD’s forte is developing fresh insight and thought leadership based on original research. As the only top business school to have full sister campuses in different continents, INSEAD is especially experienced in connecting people and ideas across geographic and cultural boundaries. Our research agenda flows from linking top scholars closely to industry, and these ties help us communicate our findings in ways executives can use. GPEI draws on the resources of our three campuses and executes its global mandate to focus its initial research on new frontiers in PE - Emerging Markets and the needs of LPs. GPEI aims not merely to provide information or advice; but to help professionals generate their own unique insights.
	The 10th Annual INSEAD Private Equity Conference Fontainebleau Friday, May 25th, 2012 The 10th Annual INSEAD Private Equity Conference will take place on the Fontainebleau campus on Friday, May 25th, 2012. The theme will focus on identification of opportunities and disciplined value creation. For more information and tickets, click here
	GPEI is now featured on tilt. FT tilt is a premium online service from the Financial Times focused exclusively on the emerging world. It is aimed at those who require highly granular information on companies and markets beyond the developed world economies. For a start it contains the GPEI report on “Asian Private Equity: Will it Deliver on its Promise?” by Professor Claudia Zeisberger and Michael Prahl... Click here to read.
	Call for Papers PEI Media is actively seeking papers for inclusion in its new quarterly peer-reviewed journal - The Review of Private Equity Sitting at the crossroads of private equity theory and practice, The Review of Private Equity will be a repository of specialist knowledge which will help limited partners, fund managers, intermediaries and advisers make better-informed and more profitable investment decisions. This journal will also enhance the academic discourse about the asset class and aid students in their study of private equity.