Course overview

Decoding Private Equity

Financial vs. Strategic Investors  
Different Investor Types  
Where Investors Sit Along the Risk / Reward Continuum  
Understanding Primary vs. Secondary Capital  
Business Lifecycle and the Investment Continuum

How Businesses are Valued  
Relative and Absolute Value  
Free Cash Flow (“FCF”)  
Three Sought-After Attributes of FCF  
Desirable Business Traits & Their Impact on FCF  
The Importance of Perspective  
Risk & Opportunity  
Billionaires Brawl

Private Equity vs. Institutional Private Equity
Private Equity vs. Public Equity Comparison
Other Investor Types Similar to Private Equity

Private Equity’s Prominence & Reach  
How a Buyout Works  
How Institutional PE Works  
Investment Horizon / Hold Period  
How PE Firms are Structured: A Simplified Example  
PE Firms as Broader Multi-Strategy Asset Managers  
PE Firm Activities  
The Investment Box  
The PE Deal Funnel  
AUM vs. Fund Size vs. Dry Powder  
Other People’s Money  
How PE Returns Are Measured  
The Three Ways PE Firms Make Money

The LBO Compared to Other Common Valuation Techniques  
LBO Mechanics: A Conceptual View  
The Investor’s Lens Revisited

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