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Grove Street Advisors (“GSA”) is a leading fund-of-funds, focused on investing in “low risk” top-tier private equity funds that are not excessively large nor highly levered. GSA is faced with a number of strategic alternatives to help catalyze the firm’s next stage of growth. We propose that GSA expand globally and continue to build expertise in relatively underserved global PE markets such as China and India to help meet its objectives of satisfying customer needs, enhancing its international reputation, staying responsive to trends in private equity, and ultimately maximizing profitability.

Fund flows are positively related to past performance, and better performing partnerships are more likely to raise follow-on funds and larger funds. Figure 1 aggregates the historical returns of Exhibition 1 and compares them to the fund sizes of Accel since 1983 vintage. The graph shows that there is a positive correlation between the historical returns of both the average and upper quartile with the fund size of Accel. However, it can be seen that as returns for top performers and average VC funds decline after 1996, Accel was still able to increase its fund size by 83%. Accel continued ability to raise larger funds implies not only the success of the company’s past strategic performance but also the existing high demand for investing with Accel. Hence, it would be justified that for the latest VC fund Accel has proposed to charge a carried interest of 30% rather than 20%. Our analysis then looks into this latest VC fund, Accel Partners VII, and forecasts the NPV and IRR of the investment under specific standard assumptions. Table 2 shows a part of our NPV and IRR calculations under different steady growth rate. It should be noted that for investors to be indifferent between investing in a typical 20/80 VC fund versus the 30/70 Accel VII fund, Accel must outperform the average in every NPV and IRR

The Yale Endowment is known in the financial industry as a pioneer in using a combination of innovative asset allocation and active management to produce impressive long-term performance. In fact, the Endowment produced a 17.8% average annual return, net of fees, in the ten-year period ending June 30, 2007.1 This performance is particularly impressive given that, in recent years, the Endowment portfolio has carried less than a 40% weighting in equities. Instead, under the leadership of Chief Investment Officer Dave Swensen, the Yale Investments Office

I strive to provide my clients with the best possible investment advice and service by employing proven investment strategies and techniques in order to achieve superior investment returns over the long term. I keep my business simple and straightforward in order to ensure that clients understand and easily participate in our ongoing

The wealth management or financial planning professions provide financial planning services and investment advice to clients for high net profit. The essential goal of any financial profession is to sustain and increase the long-term wealth of their clients. Since they manage huge amount of money for other people, they must also be ethical, trustworthy and free of any criminal record involving robbery, fraud or intentional mismanagement. Thus, they should understand complex financial documents, financial regulations and legal restrictions, not only good command of investments and financial planning.

GBA was founded in 1984 by Jake Greydanus. The initial name which was given to this company was the Greydanus & associates investment counsel limited. The aim of the company is to provide the fixed management of income to all the pensions and endowments funds. In 1986, Boeckh purchased a half of the firm and this led to the change of the name of the company to Greydanus, boeckh & associates incorporation. This research aims at analysis the organization while elaborating the parts of the case study which are important about the company.

I strongly advocate tactical asset allocation process and diversification over several different income and growth strategies. I believe that risk management and protection of investor's endowment are major objectives. In my portfolio, stocks may occupy a large portion and the

REITs plays a very important role in pension funds because it offers both income and upside. Further, it also provides an opportunity for pension funds to increase both liquidity and returns, and decrease volatility that will attract them so as to boost their investments in REITs.

On February 10th 1997, Frank Miller assumed the position as the director of data management in Smith’s Information Services department. He was hired to fill a vacancy that was available for more than one year as well as help restructure and reorganize Smith’s Information Services department (Hattersley and Mcjannet, 54). The primary function of the Data Management Group at Smith Financial was to manage the distribution, storage, capture and flow of data throughout the company. Before Miller, this position was left vacant and needed someone to take charge as well as help the company move in a different direction than the current one.

This memorandum addresses some of the key issues with Edward Jones, which includes the lack of an online presence, possible cannibalization from larger firms, and the inability to manage funds from institutional investors. I conclude that the most effective of all of the theorized strategies would be a combination of Edward Jones’ original business model with an online platform. This plan would allow Edward Jones to stay true to its fundamentals, as well as attract new clientele and provide better service to its existing clients.

One of the methods utilized by this company is an asset allocation model, this model offers the clients multiple strategies they can use such as investing in growth fund this plan does not have much payout for the investor and the risk is higher. The next is Income fund

Many people don’t understand the process of investing; some people think you would have to work on Wall Street in order to understand the investing process. Even though the investing world has become more confusing than ever, Joe Mansueto saw an easier way of investing. Mr. Mansueto created an organization called Morning Inc. that would demonstrate an easier way of investing. Mansueto created a format that would cut around all unessassary information and aim directly for the relevant information. The company that Joe Mansueto established main focus is to research independent information for investments, financial advisor, and intuitional advisor (Ferrell, 2009). Morningstar’s mutual fund rating service is probably the most influential fund

Pension funds are any plans, funds or schemes which provide retirement income. These funds are important to shareholders of listed and private companies and they are particularly important to the stock market which is dominated by large institutional investors. This essay discusses the idea of pension funds and the pension crises. It defines the issues of pension funds, talks about the various pensions, categorizes them, and discusses the pension crisis and its implications to the US in particular and to the world in general.

Yale’s investment philosophy is one of the critical factors that played into the success of the fund’s performance in the past years. The philosophy is based on 5 principles: focus on equity, diversification, opportunities in inefficient markets, outside managers and alignment of manager’s incentives with Yale’s interests. In the paragraphs below I will discuss how each of these principles is reflected in the endowment’s asset allocation, as shown from Exhibit 1.

1. The fund deals with technology driven companies due to the expertise of its fund manager in that area; comfortable in prediction of individual stock