Institutional investment in listed private equity

Cumming, Douglas; Fleming, Grant; Johan, Sofia

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Institutional investment in listed private equity

Date

2011

Authors

Cumming, Douglas

Fleming, Grant

Johan, Sofia

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Abstract

This paper examines institutional investors' propensity to invest in a relatively unknown asset class of listed private equity. Based on data provided by LPEQ, Preqin and Scorpio Partnership covering 171 institutional investors in Europe in 2008-2010, we