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The case explores the direct investment strategy of CPP Investments, one of the largest and most influential pension funds and private equity investors globally. Through an analysis of its acquisition and later sale of a controlling stake in GlobalLogic, students follow the Canadian Pension Fund’s private equity and venture capital investing strategy.
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Reference 6732
Published 18 May 2022
Topic Economics & Finance
Region North America
Industry Venture Capital, Private Equity
The case explores the direct investment strategy of CPP Investments, one of the largest and most influential pension funds and private equity investors globally. Through an analysis of its acquisition and later sale of a controlling stake in GlobalLogic, students follow the Canadian Pension Fund’s private equity and venture capital investing strategy.
This case describes how an intrapreneur helped Credit Suisse launch a commercially viable impact investing business in Asia. It specifically details the investment strategy and process for a new impact fund aligning social impact objectives with commercial goals of the bank. It also presents two new investment opportunities needing evaluation.
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Reference 6320
Published 28 Aug 2017
Topic Responsibility
Region Asia
Industry Venture Capital, Private Equity, Financial Services
This case describes how an intrapreneur helped Credit Suisse launch a commercially viable impact investing business in Asia. It specifically details the investment strategy and process for a new impact fund aligning social impact objectives with commercial goals of the bank. It also presents two new investment opportunities needing evaluation.
This case examines a critical decision faced by the partners of a venture capital firm, Adara Venture Partners, in June 2013. In the course of raising their second fund, the partners face the prospect of an anchor investor pulling out because Adara had not yet assembled sufficient capital to meet the end-of-month deadline to complete the fund’s first closing.
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Reference 5822
Published 11 Jun 2015
Topic Entrepreneurship
Region Europe
Industry Venture Capital, Private Equity
This case examines a critical decision faced by the partners of a venture capital firm, Adara Venture Partners, in June 2013. In the course of raising their second fund, the partners face the prospect of an anchor investor pulling out because Adara had not yet assembled sufficient capital to meet the end-of-month deadline to complete the fund’s first closing.
The case focuses on the risks and rewards of early-stage investing in a successful emerging market consumer start-up (i.e. non-tech), from seed funding in 2004 to raising expansion capital in 2019.
We observe the founder of Sula Vineyards, a winemaker from the Nasik Valley in India, as he makes decisions about external fundraising. Case (A) takes the seed investor perspective.
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Reference 5668
Published 25 Jan 2010
Topic Entrepreneurship
Region Asia
Industry Venture Capital, Food and Beverages Production, Wine and Spirits
The case focuses on the risks and rewards of early-stage investing in a successful emerging market consumer start-up (i.e. non-tech), from seed funding in 2004 to raising expansion capital in 2019.
We observe the founder of Sula Vineyards, a winemaker from the Nasik Valley in India, as he makes decisions about external fundraising. Case (A) takes the seed investor perspective.
The case focuses on the risks and rewards of early-stage investing in a successful emerging market consumer start-up (i.e. non-tech), from seed funding in 2004 to raising expansion capital in 2019. We observe the founder of Sula Vineyards, a winemaker from the Nasik Valley in India, as he makes decisions about external fundraising. Case (A) takes the seed investor perspective.
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Reference 5668
Published 30 Sep 2019
Topic Entrepreneurship
Region Asia
Industry Venture Capital, Food and Beverages Production, Wine and Spirits
The case focuses on the risks and rewards of early-stage investing in a successful emerging market consumer start-up (i.e. non-tech), from seed funding in 2004 to raising expansion capital in 2019. We observe the founder of Sula Vineyards, a winemaker from the Nasik Valley in India, as he makes decisions about external fundraising. Case (A) takes the seed investor perspective.
The case focuses on the risks and rewards of early-stage investing in a successful emerging market consumer start-up (i.e. non-tech), from seed funding in 2004 to raising expansion capital in 2019. We observe the founder of Sula Vineyards, a winemaker from the Nasik Valley in India, as he makes decisions about external fundraising. Case (A) takes the seed investor perspective.
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Reference 5668
Published 30 Sep 2019
Topic Entrepreneurship
Region Asia
Industry Venture Capital, Food and Beverages Production, Wine and Spirits
The case focuses on the risks and rewards of early-stage investing in a successful emerging market consumer start-up (i.e. non-tech), from seed funding in 2004 to raising expansion capital in 2019. We observe the founder of Sula Vineyards, a winemaker from the Nasik Valley in India, as he makes decisions about external fundraising. Case (A) takes the seed investor perspective.
Case A:
To extract cheap volatility in Duke Energy convertible bonds, Mark Punt, a convertible arbitrageur at KBC AIM, purchases the bonds and delta hedges them with a short position in the companys shares. To manage the credit risk of his long convertible bond position, Mark faces a choice of hedging with CDS, shares of the company or out-of-the-money puts on the companys stock.
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Reference 5225
Published 10 Jan 2004
Topic Economics & Finance
Region Europe
Industry Venture Capital
Case A:
To extract cheap volatility in Duke Energy convertible bonds, Mark Punt, a convertible arbitrageur at KBC AIM, purchases the bonds and delta hedges them with a short position in the companys shares. To manage the credit risk of his long convertible bond position, Mark faces a choice of hedging with CDS, shares of the company or out-of-the-money puts on the companys stock.
Case B: Based on a Merton-type structural model of credit risk, Steve Dash, a trader at KBC AIM, perceives that British Airways’CDS are mispriced relative to the company’s share price. Steve has to figure out which trades to put on to exploit the potential mispricing and what the main profit drivers of this strategy are.
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Reference 5225
Published 10 Jan 2004
Topic Economics & Finance
Region Europe
Industry Venture Capital
Case B: Based on a Merton-type structural model of credit risk, Steve Dash, a trader at KBC AIM, perceives that British Airways’CDS are mispriced relative to the company’s share price. Steve has to figure out which trades to put on to exploit the potential mispricing and what the main profit drivers of this strategy are.