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How Is Remote Work Reshaping Venture Capital?
We explore pandemic-induced shifts in venture capital investment by industry as well as emerging geographic trends in the U.S.
Aug 18, 2022


Private Assets Can’t Hide from SEC’s Proposed Climate Rule
The authors examine how private assets may be impacted by the SEC proposal that U.S. public companies disclose info on climate-related risk.
Aug 8, 2022


How Is Remote Work Reshaping Private Real Estate?
COVID-19 upended traditional work arrangements and America's economic geography. We revisit our early predictions about private real estate.
Jul 18, 2022
Risk-Adjusted Returns of Private Equity Funds: A New Approach
The authors of this paper introduce a new metric, α, to benchmark the performance of individual private equity funds, using BMU data.
Jul 8, 2022


The Impact of COVID-19 on Private Capital’s Exposure to Sustainability Issues
In this paper, we examine the BMU's exposure to the SASB Standards at two points in time—prior to the COVID-19 crisis and at present.
May 11, 2022
A First Look into Private Debt
We take a granular look at loan-level data from the BMU to document some of the characteristics of private debt.
Apr 14, 2022


Understanding Private Capital’s Exposure to Carbon-Intensive Sectors
The authors examine estimated carbon emissions for 1,625 companies across carbon-intensive sectors to find informative trends for investors.
Apr 7, 2022
Disruption and Credit Markets
In this paper, the authors show that over the past half-century, innovative disruptions were central to understanding corporate defaults.
Mar 22, 2022
Performance Analysis and Attribution with Alternative Investments
This white paper summarizes existing methods and current research on performance analysis and attribution for complex portfolios.
Mar 1, 2022


How Risky Are Private Assets?
Burgiss Applied Research describes an approach that finds a sensible ordering for volatilities of the major private capital asset classes.
Jan 31, 2022
Risk Adjustment of Private Equity Cash Flows
The authors propose an alternative application of Burgiss' PE dataset so that market data determines the term structure of interest rates.
Dec 7, 2021


New Frontiers in Carbon Footprinting: Private Equity and Debt Funds
Rumi Mahmood, MSCI and Abdulla Zaid, Burgiss Key Takeaways Expansion Capital and Venture Capital funds[1] exhibited the lowest average...
Nov 29, 2021


The Risk and Return of Impact Investing Funds
Jessica Jeffers, Tianshu Lyu, Kelly Posenau As major societal problems like climate change and inequality grow, investors and the public...
Nov 11, 2021
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