Private equity

Definitions

 * Private Equity
 * Venture Capital

Vanguard has a paper on Understanding Alternative Investments: Private Equity Performance Measurement and its Role in a Portfolio (June 2003)

Papers

 * Investing in Private Equity Funds: A Survey by Phalippou, Ludovic (2007)
 * Private Equity Performance: Returns, Persistence and Capital Flows by Steve Kaplan and Antoinette Schoar (2004)
 * The Performance of Private Equity Funds by Phalippou, L., and M. Zollo (September,2005)
 * An Index For Venture Capital by John M. Quigley and Susan E. Woodward (2003)
 * The Risk and Return of Venture Capital by John H. Cochrane (January 2001)
 * Caveats when Venturing into the Buyout World: Is the Devil in the Details? by Phalippou, Ludovic, (July 2007)