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title: Alumni Ties and Private Equity Investments: Impact on Endowment Choices
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/4550860/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
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identifier: SSRN 4550860
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4550860
featured: 2023-08-30
citations: unknown
topic: Other
---


# Alumni Ties and Private Equity Investments: Impact on Endowment Choices

Impact on Endowment Choices: The research finds that university endowments tend to invest in private equity funds managed by their alumni, but this doesn't necessarily lead to better performance.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4550860
- Identifier: SSRN 4550860
- Released: 2023-03-13
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 14 (2023-08-30): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2023-08-30/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Other

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