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title: Optimizing Investment Period Length and Strategies for Private Equity Portfolios with Rounds of Financing
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/4657147/
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updated: 2026-09-26
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identifier: SSRN 4657147
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featured: 2023-12-13
citations: 0
topic: Portfolio & Allocation
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# Optimizing Investment Period Length and Strategies for Private Equity Portfolios with Rounds of Financing

The Sequential Investment Allocation Model (SIAM) is introduced to manage Private Equity fund portfolio investment periods, aiming to shorten investment period length while considering payoff and strategies.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4657147
- Identifier: SSRN 4657147
- Released: 2023-12-07
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 29 (2023-12-13): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2023-12-13/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): 0
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Portfolio & Allocation

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