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title: Calm Markets, Confident PE Executives: Private Equity Earnings Calls Reflect Renewed Optimism in Q1’24
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/4891919/
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updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
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identifier: SSRN 4891919
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4891919
featured: 2024-07-17
citations: 0
topic: LLMs & Text
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# Calm Markets, Confident PE Executives: Private Equity Earnings Calls Reflect Renewed Optimism in Q1’24

Confidence among private equity (PE) firms has significantly increased over the past two years, with Q1 2024 showing renewed optimism despite market fluctuations.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4891919
- Identifier: SSRN 4891919
- Released: 2024-07-01
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 57 (2024-07-17): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2024-07-17/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): 0
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: LLMs & Text

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