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Private Equity Program Breadth and Strategic Asset Allocation

March 1, 2019
By: Jason Mao, Nan Zhang, State Street Associates

By Alexander Rudin, Jason Mao, Nan R. Zhang, and Anne-Marie Fink.

Published in the Journal of Private Equity, Spring 2019.

We create a custom “synthetic” peer group for each private equity program that mirrors the program’s strategy mix and number of fund commitments actually made each year. Our enhanced methodology corrects for the program breadth bias and creates a fairer process for assessing a program manager’s skill.

Author Bios
Jason Mao
Nan Zhang
Dr. Nan Zhang is a Managing Director at State Street Associates, the research arm of State Street Markets. He oversees the implementation of State Street Associate’s research product suite across investor behavior, risk and alternative investment. He also manages the product development and client services of State Street Private Equity Index, and leads the academic research partnerships in alternative investments. Nan has published a number of research papers in journals across different fields including the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Portfolio Management and the Journal of Neuroscience.
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1. Peter L. Bernstein Award for Best Article in an Institutional Investor Journal in 2013; Bernstein-Fabozzi/Jacobs-Levy Award for Outstanding Article in the Journal of Portfolio Management in 2006, 2009, 2011, 2013 (2), 2014, 2015, 2016, 2021; Graham & Dodd Scroll Award for article in the Financial Analysts Journal in 2002 and 2010. Roger F. Murray First Prize for Research Presented at the Q Group Conference in 2012, 2021, 2023. Harry M. Markowitz Award for Best Paper in the Journal of Investment Management in 2022, 2023. Doriot Award for Best Private Equity Research Paper in 2022.