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The CEO alpha: The advantages of exceptional leadership

Mckinsey and Company

When private equity portfolio company CEOs perform well, the companies they lead do too, creating a “CEO alpha.” This episode of Deal Volume discusses how to cultivate great leaders for greater gains.

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CEO alpha: A new approach to generating private equity outperformance

Mckinsey and Company

To create and sustain high performance, private equity sponsors must make building distinctive PE CEOs a priority. Here’s how.

Alpha 90
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Do Activists Beat the Market?

Harvard Corporate Governance

In other words, not all activists are the alpha generators that they are made to seem, and the majority do not deliver on their campaign promises of outperformance beyond an immediate “pop.” individuals, private equity funds, family offices). Our empirical review included campaigns waged between 2018 and H1 2023 at U.S. more…)

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Mutual Fund Performance at Long Horizons

Harvard Corporate Governance

Most research that considers investor outcomes reports on unconditional or conditional (as in “alpha” estimates) arithmetic means of returns that are measured over relatively short horizons, most often monthly. equity mutual funds at the monthly, annual, decade, and full-sample horizons. We study a broad sample of nearly 8,000 U.S.

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New Age Alpha to Acquire Guggenheim Investments' Actively Managed Equity Funds Business

Benzinga

NEW YORK, June 05, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Guggenheim Investments and New Age Alpha today announced a definitive agreement under which New Age Alpha will acquire Guggenheim Investments' actively managed equity funds business. billion out of Guggenheim Investments' more than $234 billion in total assets managed.

Alpha 40
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ESG Valuation Considerations – Top Down or Bottom Up?

Value Scope

This work can be used to reconcile and support an adjustment to the CAPM, then the WACC, via Alpha and Beta. ESG in Equity Analysis and Credit Analysis” was published in 2018 by the PRI, the Principles of Responsible Investment arm of the UN, and the CFA Institute. Using Alpha, however, it could be done. million to $271.5

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Pasithea Therapeutics Acquires Alpha-5 Integrin, LLC

Benzinga

- Alpha-5 is a potentially first-in-class monoclonal antibody for the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and other neurological diseases - - Expands pipeline across Pasithea's core therapeutic areas to drive enhanced growth - - Closing consideration of 3.26 million, payable in 3.26 Cassel Salpeter & Co.

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