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An Introduction to Investment Banks, Hedge Funds, and Private Equity: The New Paradigm

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Question by ontheroadto1m: What’s the difference between private equity funds and hedge fund?
I read in Business Weekly that pension funds, university endowments, and other big investors invest in hedge funds and private equity funds. An accompanying graph shows that private equity funds had much higher returns than hedge funds in 2006 and 2007, but also greater losses in 2008. What is the difference between the two? Do they invest in different products? If not, on what base would a pension fund choose whether to invest in one or the other? Thank you!

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Answer by Dinesh
Interesting question. The two represent different asset classes, with their own returns cycles. The pension funds and other endowments seek exposure to different asset classes to diversify away their risks.

Hedge Funds typically invest in publicly traded securities, currencies, derivatives, etc. and present some interesting strategies. There is a long list of these strategies, with names like portable-alpha, absolute-return, 130-30, long-short, stat-arb, and so on. But these are lightly supervised investment vehicles. Managers are incentivized by participation in profits beyond some hurdle. Their expertise is in markets, modeling, trading.

Private Equity funds otoh are more corporate finance/executives kind. They typically try to spot firms whose stocks may have fallen on harder times, or, more generally, whose market value (inclusive of takeover premiums) is way below the business value. They also buyout private companies when there is an opportunity such as cash crunch, business model change, death of a large holder, disputes, etc. They do buyouts, streamline the company, bring in better management, get rid of useless stuff, make it fit and attractive, and then resell to another buyer or re-IPO. That’s their game. They are ops/finance specialists, perhaps with some vertical-specific expertise.

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Wednesday 7 May 2008 Sydney – TechInvest CEO Rick Steele on the “Debt to Equity” television program on Sky News. Rick explains the benefits of hedge funds, ambitions for the Australian environment, his team’s approach to achieving above market returns and his view of the current market.

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The EU reviewed the role of hedge funds and private equity in the financial crisis and drew some lessons regarding the need for EU level regulation of these fund types. The financial crisis had revealed that hedge funds could impact financial stability in ways that had not previously been expected.  However, there is also widespread concern about the extent to which private equity portfolio companies are over-reliant on increasingly scarce bank debt, raising questions about their financial viability.

So there are those who say hedge funds and private equity did not cause the economic crisis which we are now experiencing, but we can all agree that the crisis most definitely is the result of excessive debt, and hedge funds and private equity are responsible for a very sizeable amount of recent debt.

There are growing concerns with the EU’s plan to put forward new regulations within the hedge fund industry as the changes could prove extensively costly to implement, even with the new rules being toned down by the member states.

In the current state of the new regulations a group of city lawyers said that the changes could lead to a systematic failure within the European markets if they were to be carried out.   They could also create significant legal uncertainty, which would lead again to a potential systemic failure and widespread market disruption, unless they are appropriately amended.

Due to the possible chaotic effects that these new regulations could cause to the European economy, ministers are expected to intensify their lobbying efforts to head off what are widely seen as heavy-handed rules governing the behaviour of hedge funds, private equity firms and other alternative investment businesses.  The City minister recently held talks with the Spanish government, which currently holds the EU presidency about his concern with hedge funds and private equity firms, of which many are based in London, will just simply relocate from the EU if the rules are implemented without reforms.

A lot of investors who are actively seeking  to invest in shares of high yield investment opportunities, undervalued small cap stocks, offshore funds and hedge funds, or even pre-IPO private equity investment opportunities follow a crowd mentality of deal sourcing that doesn’t always net them the return or value their financial investment was allocated for.

And in most instances, even well capitalized affluent investors,  private equity groups, hedge funds, venture capitalists, family offices, sovereign wealth funds, pensions, & endowments can’t possible be in an inner VIP network of ground floor investments that are only accessible to a few.  So they are forced to park their internal equity into pre-ipo companies, small cap stocks, or portfolio managers hoping for a different result which doesn’t always materialize.

A better option is not to follow the crowd mentality and think outside the box in allocating to overall investment portfolios that are not always traditional in scope.  With a specific risk strategy and multiple exits of of profits not directly related to economic conditions, investing in film may just offer that kind of opportunity for both smaller affluent investors as well as hedge funds, private equity groups, family offices, financial and wealth advisers, fund of funds, and others.

Historically investment in film was either structured without  any risk minimization or the junior equity was crushed by the repayment of mezzanine & senior debt in large studio film slates. Investors thought that just by having their investment allocated with too many other tranches or based on fantasy mote carlo simulation models, there would a higher propensity for success.  Unfortunately the superior returns in film finance and film investing were only successful withing film funds or film production and distribution companies that had a grasp of structured film finance, the commercial viability of a story, as well as international distribution.

While films such as “Paranormal Activity”,  “Hurt Locker” and even “Avatar” were primarily financed with private equity, the upside in revenues for any private investment in Hollywood comes down to numerous factors that keep evolving every week at the box office.

There are plenty of affluent investors, wealthy families,  hedge funds or private equity groups that come into the film business and leave just as quick. Mainly because the partnerships weren’t based on precise risk minimization strategies. There are not too many investment right now aside from film that can offer a guaranteed rate of return before profits, especially if hedged not on a one hit wonder, but spread among 10,20, 50 films where there is a also a control of theatrical distribution.

A a lot of wealth advisers, portfolio managers, financial planners, and accredited high net worth affluent investors and family offices are open to be educated about film as an asset class.  A lot of former real estate developers, oil & gas speculators, hedge fund managers, and successful Silicon Valley investors  seem  to understand the model.

Investors are starting to have a reality check that they can go online, have a recommendation from their financial adviser or research the next hot investment opportunities in internet, technology, biotech, oil & gas, or even alternative energy and see that there is a lot of capital chasing deals with only a handful of investors that ultimately have an exclusive windows into wither private investment opportunities or a handful of fund managers than can really have a consistent ROI.

So now investors need to think outside their box and re-educate themselves on other alternative investments, especially media & entertainment, which seems to be immune to economic factors as well as movies still being the number one export of the United States.  Plus there is really no longer an absolute need for movie stars to headline indie films as the films themselves seem to be star, especially with niche social media and marketing of films where the upside in revenues from theatrical, DVD, Video On Demand, Cable, mobile, and Internet VOD only increases the potential revenue streams.

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