Private Equity Unchained: Strategy Insights for the Institutional Investor

There are significant returns to be made from private equity, infrastructure, real estate and other illiquid investments, but a competitive strategy is essential for investment success and for meeting objectives. This book takes readers through all the considerations of planning and implementing an investment strategy in illiquid investments.

Thomas Meyer is partner and co-founder of LDS Partners, specialising in the development of private equity risk measurement models and investment strategies. He has held a distinguished career in and out of the financial services, from intelligence officer in the German Air Force to CFO of Allianz Asia Pacific. He was responsible for the creation of the European Investment Fund’s risk management function with focus on the development of valuation and risk management models and investment strategies for venture capital funds-of-funds. As Director of the European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association he authored the EVCA Venture Capital White Paper 2010. Thomas co-directed the limited partner course delivered by the Private Equity Institute at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford that led to the EVCA awarded certificate. He is member of EVCA’s Private Equity Risk Measurement Group, a Shimomura Fellow of the Development Bank of Japan and was a visiting researcher at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo.

Thomas is the co-author of Beyond the J Curve, J Curve Exposure, Mastering Illiquidity and two CAIA Level II books, which are required reading for level II of the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst(R) Program.

He studied computer science at the Bundeswehr Universität in Munich and holds a Dr.rer.nat. from the University of Trier. He graduated with an MBA from the London Business School and with an MA in Japanese Language and Society from the University of Sheffield’s School of East Asian Studies.