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Picking Partners: Manager Selection in Private Equity

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  • Amit Goyal

    (University of Lausanne; Swiss Finance Institute)

  • Sunil Wahal

    (Arizona State University (ASU) - Finance Department)

  • M. Deniz Yavuz

    (Purdue University - Krannert School of Management)

Abstract

We study the selection of private equity managers (GPs) for over 100,000 capital commitments between 1990 and 2019 by global institutional investors (LPs) choosing from a plausible contemporaneous opportunity set. In addition to chasing GPs with high prior performance, LPs have large propensities to select first-time or young GPs without a performance history. LPs also have tendencies to follow their peers’ investment decisions, to reinvest with the same GP, and to invest with GPs domiciled in the same state/country. These selection criteria, however, do not provide information material for future performance, and in the case of first-time GPs are associated with lower future performance.

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  • Amit Goyal & Sunil Wahal & M. Deniz Yavuz, 2021. "Picking Partners: Manager Selection in Private Equity," Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper Series 21-86, Swiss Finance Institute.
    • Handle: RePEc:chf:rpseri:rp2186
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    Keywords

    private equity; manager selection;

    JEL classification:

    • G10 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - General (includes Measurement and Data)
    • G11 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions
    • G20 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - General
    • G23 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Non-bank Financial Institutions; Financial Instruments; Institutional Investors
    • H55 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Social Security and Public Pensions
    • H75 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - State and Local Government: Health, Education, and Welfare
    • J32 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Nonwage Labor Costs and Benefits; Retirement Plans; Private Pensions

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