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Private Equity


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Foster Business Library Databases:

The Foster Business Library offers an extensive collection of over fifty databases on its homepage; see under Databases. For a complete list of Foster databases, see the List of All Business Databases. Access to these databases from off campus requires that you first go to the Off-Campus Access button, in the upper right of all library webpages. These resources may not be accessed from off campus except by those with a valid UW Net ID and password. For more information on Foster business databases, click Databases, A-Z. For information on which Foster business databases to use, see the Database Index. For information on accessing Foster databases from off campus, see Database Access. For guidelines on responsible database usage, see Database Usage.

  • EconLit:   On the Foster Business Library homepage, under Databases — Journals, News and Magazines. Produced by the American Economic Association, EconLit is the fundamental research tool in economics. The database provides bibliographic citations, with selected abstracts, to the international literature on economics since 1969. Econ Lit corresponds to the Journal of Economic Literature and the Index of Economic Articles, covering journal articles, books, and dissertations, as well as articles in collective works, such as conference proceedings and collected essay volumes.

    A search for Private Equity in this database produced over 150 references.

  • Hoovers Online:   Hoovers Online offers information about 14,000 public and private companies worldwide, with links to company homepages and annual reports, charts, company capsule, competitors, divisions, earnings, financials, Fortune and Forbes rankings, history, industry information, insider trading, mission statements, news links, press releases, officers, patents, products, SEC filings, splits, subsidiaries, etc.

    See the Hoovers' factsheet for the Investment Firm industry, including information on many private equity companies, including, for example, public company Blackstone and private company Carlyle.

  • Investext:   Investext contains indexing and the full text of company and industry research reports prepared by several hundred Wall Street, regional and international brokerage and financial firms. Over 11,000 companies are included in this database as well as over fifty industries. All reports are in PDF format.

    A keyword search for Private Equity produced over 190 reports.

  • JSTOR:   This database may be found under List of All Business Databases. JSTOR is a subject searchable index of 360 journals, with full-text backfiles of scholarly journals, some of which date back to the 1800's. Among the collections of scholarly journals on this site are ones for Business and for Economics, encompassing over one hundred journals.

    A advanced abstracts search for Private Equity produced over 100 references.

  • Social Sciences Citation Index:   This database "is a multidisciplinary index, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the social sciences. It indexes more than 1,725 journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals. It "provides access to current information and retrospective data from 1956 forward."

    An advanced title search in this citation database for Private Equity produced a list of over sixty references.

  • Vault Career Library:   Under Business Databases on the Foster Business Library homepage. This database provides information and guides for over 3,000 companies, 40 industries, and over fifty career paths, including over ninety career guides, as well as employer profiles, articles, and advice on careers, resumes, and cover letters; and more.

    See the latest guide to the Top Private Equity Employers.

  • VentureXpert Web:   Available under Databases on the Foster Business Library homepage. This database of venture capital and IPO data, from Thomsen, contains venture capital and private equity information dating back to 1970. It includes data on private equity placements and IPO activity, with the ability to limit searches to geographic area, industry, etc.

    For instance, a search in this database for companies, in Washington state, involved in venture-related deals, produced over 600 companies.

    Web Resources:

    Unlike library databases, Web resources are available wherever you have web access; they do not require that you access them via the Off-Campus Access button, in the upper right of all library webpages. When using web resources, be sure to evaluate the credibility of these resources. For a subject index to web resources, see Business Resources on the Web on the Foster Business Library homepage.

  • BehindTheBuyouts.Com:   This site is subtitled "inside the world of private equity" and is the creation of the Service Employees International Union, "the fastest-growing union in North America, with 1.9 million members in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico" and "the largest health care union, the largest property services union, and the second-largest public employees union." The site provides a copious amount of news, information, blogs, and commentary on the private equity industry, from the point of view of this labor organization. See their Media Center.

  • European Private Equity & Venture Capital Association:   This association is a valuable source for information about its industries, in both Europe and the U.S., and, unlike some other private equity associations, its data and industry information is available free to the public, without registration requirements. See their Latest Data and Facts & Figures.

  • Private Equity (DealBook):   This New York Times special section on deals covers daily happenings in mergers, buyouts, investment banking, hedge funds, venture capital – and private equity.

  • Private Equity Council:   This organization is "an advocacy, communications and research organization and resource center established to develop, analyze and distribute information about the private equity industry and its contributions to the national and global economy. The PEC opened its doors in February 2007. PEC members are among the world’s best-known and most-respected asset managers. They are Apax Partners; Apollo Advisors; Bain Capital; the Blackstone Group; the Carlyle Group; Hellman and Friedman; Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts; Providence Equity Partners; Silver Lake Partners, Thomas H. Lee Partners; and TPG (formerly Texas Pacific Group)." See their Private Equity Backgrounder and Fact Sheets.

  • Private Money:   This Fortune magazine site explains the private equity industry. See their Private Equity Power List of the top ten figures in this industry.

  • Tuck Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship:   "The Tuck Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship aims to advance the understanding of private equity investing—the engine behind the entrepreneurial activity that drives global innovation and productivity. The center focuses on macro and micro issues relating to private equity: capital markets, financing structures, governance and entrepreneurship." See their Research.

  • Wikipedia:   This free online user-created and maintained encyclopedia can be a good starting point for an orientation to a topic though caution must be exercised with this resource; see What About Wikipedia from the UW-Tacoma Library. See the Wikipedia entry for Private Equity (including their warning about lack of source citations).

    Foster Business Library Reference Collection:

    The Foster Business Library Reference Collection consists of business handbooks, encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other quick reference tools. It is located behind the Reference Desk in Foster, arranged by call number. Reference materials cannot be checked out; they may only be used in the library.

  • Pratt's guide to private equity sources.
    This reference work, formerly Pratt's Guide to Venture Capital Sources, starts with over 120 pages of information about the venture capital industry, with essays on the background of private equity, how to raise it, sources for business development financing, and other topics. The major part of this reference is a directory of U.S. and non-U.S. private equity firms (arranged by state), with indexes by individual, industry and stage preferences, and by company name.
    Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HG64 .P73 2004.

    See Washington state on page 1483.

  • The corporate finance sourcebook.
    This large paperback is a guide to major capital investment sources, including venture capital, both in the U.S. and internationally.
    Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HG4057 .A1565 2003.

    See Washington on pages A262 to A263 and the Northwest on page 371.

  • The handbook of alternative assets.
    This handbook covers hedge funds, commodity and managed futures, private equity, credit derivatives, and corporate governance.
    Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HG4530 .A57 2002.
    (Also available online)

    See section III, chapters 14 to 19, for Private Equity, on pages 259 to 405.

  • The directory of venture capital & private equity firms.
    This large new paperback, in its eighth edition, lists U.S. and international firms in two A to Z lists, with over 3,300 firms, indexed by college or university, executives, geography, industry preference, and portfolio companies. The A to Z listing of firms includes, for each firm, its mission statement, geographic preference, fund size, average and minimum investments, investment criteria, industry group preferences, portfolio companies, locations, and key executives.
    Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HG4751 .F582 2004.

    See executives associated with the University of Washington on pages 839 and 840, and firms located in the state of Washington on pages 942 and 943.

  • Vault guide to the top private equity employers.
    This paperback, from the Vault Career Library, provides an overview of this industry and profiles of the major firms.
    Foster Business Library Reference, CALL NUMBER: HG4963 .V38 2006.
    (Also available in the Foster database known as the Vault Career Library)

    Foster Business Library Books:

    The Foster Business Library maintains a collection of over 70,000 books on all business topics. To search for materials on all three campuses of the University of Washington, go to the UW Libraries Catalog, in the upper left corner of the Foster Business Library homepage. Search by keyword, title, author, series, etc.

    To limit the results of your search just to materials in the Foster Business Library collection, use the Modify or Limit options at the top of the search results and change the library location to Foster Business Library. Availablity is indicated on the right of each online catalog record. First, note in which collection, within Foster, your materials are in, since the library has ten different Collections, each in a different location and often with differing arrangements. "Available" indicates that the book should be on the shelves under that call number and available for you to check out. "Due" and a date indicates that the book is already checked out to someone and is due back on the date indicated; you can have the "Request/Place Hold" feature to recall the book for your use.

    If the material you want is not in the collections of the University of Washington, you can use the "Search Summit" feature to repeat your search in the combined holdings of over thirty cooperating libraries in Washington and Oregon. Use the "Request This Item" feature in Summit to have books in those library sent here to Foster for you to check out.

    The Foster general stacks collection is located south of the main part of the Foster Business Library, through the two pass-throughs into the basement of Balmer. The arrangement is by call number, from A (at the east end, near the Copy Center) to Z (at the far west end).

    A title search for Private Equity retrieved just nine records in the UW Libraries. A subject search for the same term produced just eight records in the UW Libraries. A keyword search for this term produced over thirty records.

    Foster Business Library titles from these searches include:

    Foster Business Library Periodicals:

    Foster Business Library Articles:

    Articles in academic journals, magazines, trade periodicals, and newspapers are one of the best sources for any kind of research. While the Foster Business Library offers a large periodicals print collection, comprising over 800 titles, articles are most easily accessed online, 24/7, in such fulltext article databases as EBSCO Business Source Premier, Factiva, LexisNexis Academic, Newsbank Infoweb, and ProQuest Databases. These article databases are available in the library or from off-campus, and provide access to over 10,000 periodicals and millions of articles.

    Library access to most ProQuest databases will terminate at the end of spring quarter 2008, except for ProQuest NewsStand, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, Historical New York Times, and the Historical Wall Street Journal. For more about this change, see UW Libraries Providing New Databases. After this change, comprehensive article searches should be performed in EBSCO Business Source Premier, Newsbank Infoweb, and ProQuest NewsStand. Also, after this change, links to the articles below will be broken.

    ProQuest Databases:

    This database--actually, a family of over two dozen databases--offers full text articles for over 10,000 publications, including scholarly journals, magazines, trade and industry periodicals, newspapers, and reports on a very wide range of topics. To find articles on specific topics, search by word or phrase by keying your search phrase into the search box--or search for your topic in the Topic Guide.

    Your search terms will be highlighted in red in each article.

    A subject search for SUB(Private Equity) produced over two thousand articles, including over sixty articles in scholarly journals, over 160 magazine articles, over a thousand articles in trade and industry periodicals, and over six hundred newspaper articles.

    Examples of articles, from the searches above, include:

    Help:

    21 August 2007; updated 20 February 2008.   Peter Stevens, Business Librarian, stevens@u.washington.edu