Cumming, Douglas and Hass, Lars Helge and Schweizer, Denis (2013) Private Equity Benchmarks and Portfolio Optimization. Journal of Banking and Finance, 37 (9). 3515–3528. ISSN 0378-4266
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Portfolio optimization using private equity is typically based on one of three indices: listed private equity, transaction-based private equity, or appraisal value-based private equity indices. However, we show that none of these indices is fully suitable for portfolio optimization. We introduce here a new benchmark index for venture capital and buyouts, which is updated monthly, adjusted for autocorrelation (de-smoothing), and available contemporaneously. We illustrate how our benchmark enables superior quantitative portfolio optimization.