International Institute for Private Equity and Investment Banking
 PEIB Academic Industry Collaboration Forum
The PEIB Academic Industry Collaboration Forums and other related events provide a venue for educators and scholars in the fields of private equity, investment banking, mergers and acquisitions and other related fields to develop working partnerships with the corporate industry professionals and fund leaders and with each other. PEIB Forums are currently sponsored by a number of independent NGO organizations, by PEIB partners in the private equity and the investment banking sectors and by the US Department of Commerce. The Forum provides a venue to develop and to grow an international partnership of leading academicians, scholars and researchers committed to positive innovation in the field of private equity and investment banking, to bringing about a positive change and to impact corporate and investment governance, the international economy, socially and environmentally responsible investments, and our world in general through collaborative action, education, advisory and performance measures, innovative research and planning.
By hosting International Private Equity and Investment Banking Forums, and by establishing an international network comprised of educational, research and industrial organizations throughout the world, PEIB plans on leading the industry into a new age of improved cooperation between the industry, its investors, the companies and investments it services and manages and its academic partners. The PEIB Forums are intended to bring together the principals and decision makers from the leading international education and research institutions involved in private equity and investment banking research and education, and we expect it to result in the founding of a new and vigorous global partnerships in private equity and investment banking and we believe that our Forums are of great value both to the global investment and finance leadership and to our world in general.
The PEIB Academic Collaboration
The principal theme of the forums, “The Role of Academic Partners in Private Equity and Investment Banking”, will guide PEIB activities. It is up to PEIB and its members to take the initiative in responding to the rapidly transforming needs of private equity and of the global economy. PEIB Forums help form the international academic and industry network, and provides its members to share their vast body of knowledge, expertise and experience with each other. The PEIB Forums and events comprise the optimum means to accomplish this.
For more information about the upcoming PEIB Private Equity Industry and Academic Forums and Events or to sign up for the Private Equity Academic Industry Collaboration Newsletter please send an email to the Private Equity Forum organizing committee:
Private Equity Forums, News and Events
University of Michigan to Host Annual Private Equity Conference
Kevin Albert of Pantheon Ventures and John Diggins of Platinum Equity Partners to Headline Oct. 4 Event Drawing Top Alumni and PE Professionals to Michigan
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Sept. 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Zell Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies and its Center for Venture Capital and Private Equity Finance at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business today unveiled details for its eighth annual Michigan Private Equity Conference, taking place October 3 and 4. The 'boutique' Conference will cover current and emerging topics in the nation's credit markets that pose challenges and new opportunities for those in private equity and institutional investing. More than 200 private equity, investment banking and business professionals from around the United States and from the University of Michigan alumni community are expected to attend.
"Today, the private equity sector is certainly healthy and well-funded, but it has shifted its sights away from strictly doing buyouts, to providing growth capital to younger, high-potential companies in the post-venture-capital stage of financing," said David J. Brophy, director of the Center for Venture Capital and Private Equity Finance at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business. "Private equity shops are finding value in this middle market area, and that's where they're doing a lot of their investments. These are just a sampling of the kinds of deals that get done at the event and company owners who want to meet these types of investors should attend this conference, which is the best of its kind in the Midwest."
A pre-conference golf outing at the University of Michigan golf course and dinner reception will be held on Thursday, Oct. 3. The conference will kick off at 7:30 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 4 with a networking breakfast. The opening keynote address will be delivered by Kevin Albert, global head of business development at Pantheon Ventures, an international private equity fund-of-funds manager. Albert will shine a spotlight on new trends in fundraising by private equity shops. A second keynote address will be delivered later in the morning by John Diggins, a partner at Platinum Equity Partners. Diggins will share his insights into where the California-based private equity firm is placing its investment dollars and what attracted the firm to the state of Michigan. He will also speak about Platinum Equity's stake in the Detroit Pistons and the firm's experience with the NBA franchise.
In addition, a series of panel discussions and networking lunch will be held. Panelists include:
- Eric Dykema, Lineage Capital LLC
- Gerry Boylan, Long Point Capital
- Frank Muller, Jr., Behringer Harvard Holdings, Inc.
- Michael Oleshansky, PSP Capital Partners LLC
- Joseph O'Connor, AlpInvest Partners
- Bruce Engler, Faegre Baker Daniels LLP
- Mike Vlasic, Vlasic Investments
- Jeff Arnesen, Houlihan Lokey
- Michael Faremouth, Linsalata Capital Partners
- Sandra Bosela, OPTrust Private Markets Group
- Brian Demkowicz, Huron Capital
- Brendan Edmonds, Atlantic-Pacific Capital
- Eric Wilcomes, DuPont Capital Management Corp.
- Shawn Winnie, State of Michigan Department of Treasury
About the Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies
The Institute and its Center for Venture Capital and Private Equity Finance bring together a potent mix of knowledge, experience and opportunities from the front lines of entrepreneurship and alternative investments. The student learning experience is further enhanced through internships, entrepreneurial clubs and events that serve to provide viable networks and engage the business community. The School's three student-led investment funds, with over $6.5M under management, immerse students in the business assessment and investment process. Founding Board Members include Samuel Zell, Chairman of Equity Group Investments and Eugene Applebaum, Founder of Arbor Drugs, Inc. For more information, visit the Institute at www.zli.bus.umich.edu.
SOURCE Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies
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 One of the most successful investors of our time, Warren Buffett, through his investment vehicle
Berkshire Hathaway, has achieved compounded annual gains of 22.2 percent over
the last 40+ years. It is our great honor to announce the launching of the newest International Institute for Private Equity and Investment Banking research and educational initiative: The Warren Buffet Center of
Excellence in Undervalued High Performance Company Investing.
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equity indices and alternative assets. The Venture Economics all-PE index, for
instance, has returned 4.9% over the last five years, significantly higher than
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