January is the month when new year resolutions are made, where we return to the gym to burn all the calories digested during the Christmas holidays… and the month when Professor Aswath Damodaran releases all of his data updates, possibly…
I have decided to open source a side project I have been working on the past few days. It is a rudimentary stock screener automation: It connects to the Google Stock Screener API; It queries the API according to a…
[This article originally appeared on my LinkedIn profile, click here to download the spreadsheet] One of the frequently misunderstood issues in company valuations is the distinction between pre-money and post-money value. The first important thing to understand is that there…
Value Creation is essential in Private Equity. In the context of Private Equity, Value Creation is defined as the set of post-investment activities aimed at generating a positive return for the PE manager, or equivalently increasing the value of the…
Social Impact Bonds are one of the latest financial innovations in the field of public welfare. A recent report published by Social Finance (the creator of this innovative financing mechanisms), take stocks of the progress to date, 6 years after…
Executive Summary After a brief overview of Bitcoin, the blockchain technology, and the direction it is currently evolving to, we make the case that Private Equity managers (General Partners, GPs) could adopt a blockchain-based fundraising and investment process similar to…
