Measuring Institutional Investors' Skill from Their Investments in Private Equity

Daniel R. Cavagnaro, Berk A. Sensoy, Yingdi Wang and Michael Weisbach
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Daniel R. Cavagnaro: California State University
Berk A. Sensoy: Ohio State University
Yingdi Wang: California State University

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Abstract: Using a large sample of institutional investors' private equity investments in venture and buyout funds, we estimate the extent to which investors' skill affects returns from private equity investments. We first consider whether investors have differential skill by comparing the distribution of investors' returns relative to the bootstrapped distribution that would occur if funds were randomly distributed across investors. We find that the variance of actual performance is higher than the bootstrapped distribution, suggesting that higher and lower skilled investors consistently outperform and underperform. We then use a Bayesian approach developed by Korteweg and Sorensen (2015) to estimate the incremental effect of skill on performance. The results imply that a one standard deviation increase in skill leads to about a three percentage point increase in returns, suggesting that variation in institutional investors' skill is an important driver of their returns.

JEL-codes: G11 G23 G24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-08
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