WBS Forum Series 09/10 Guy Fraser-Sampson
6.30 - 8pm, Monday 23 November 2009
with Guy Fraser-Sampson, Author, "Private Equity as an asset class"
Banking and Private Equity in a post-crisis world
Has the financial crisis changed for ever the way in which we view and use
leverage, or is it just a temporary blip? What can the evolution of the
banking market suggest about what is likely to happen in the future,
particularly with regard to asset classes like hedge funds and LBOs? Has
Private Equity just got too big to be able to generate decent returns any
more?
Guy Fraser-Sampson was one of the first batch of about a dozen students to graduate from the Warwick distance learning MBA programme in 1989. At the time he embarked on the programme he was a partner in a City of London law firm, but since graduating he has held a variety of senior positions in private equity and investment banking, including heading up a cross-border transaction team for an Anglo-German bank, living in the Middle East while working as Investment Controller for the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (by common consent the largest investor in the world), and setting up and running for several years the non-US operations of the leading private equity fund of funds manager Horsley Bridge.
He is the author of two books in the prestigious Wiley Finance series, Multi Asset Class Investment Strategy and Private Equity as an asset class. The second of these has been an Amazon number one best-seller and has been translated into various languages. He currently has two more forthcoming titles in the series under contract. He also writes an influential monthly column for Real Deals, Europe's leading private equity publication. He performs consultancy and senior level executive training assignments for investors around the world, and designs and teaches business school modules on Private Equity, Investment Strategy, and Alternative Assets. He also holds public workshops, including regular ones in the UK, Taiwan and India.
Guy lives in London with his wife, who is a portrait painter, and they both enjoy watching cricket and rugby. In addition to his finance books, he also writes fiction and history. He plays bridge to tournament standard and has reached the rank of Premier Master. He occasionally sings German lieder, and dances what he describes as a "very restrained" Argentinean Tango.
Has the financial crisis changed for ever the way in which we view and use
leverage, or is it just a temporary blip? What can the evolution of the
banking market suggest about what is likely to happen in the future,
particularly with regard to asset classes like hedge funds and LBOs? Has
Private Equity just got too big to be able to generate decent returns any
more?
Guy Fraser-Sampson was one of the first batch of about a dozen students to graduate from the Warwick distance learning MBA programme in 1989. At the time he embarked on the programme he was a partner in a City of London law firm, but since graduating he has held a variety of senior positions in private equity and investment banking, including heading up a cross-border transaction team for an Anglo-German bank, living in the Middle East while working as Investment Controller for the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (by common consent the largest investor in the world), and setting up and running for several years the non-US operations of the leading private equity fund of funds manager Horsley Bridge.
He is the author of two books in the prestigious Wiley Finance series, Multi Asset Class Investment Strategy and Private Equity as an asset class. The second of these has been an Amazon number one best-seller and has been translated into various languages. He currently has two more forthcoming titles in the series under contract. He also writes an influential monthly column for Real Deals, Europe's leading private equity publication. He performs consultancy and senior level executive training assignments for investors around the world, and designs and teaches business school modules on Private Equity, Investment Strategy, and Alternative Assets. He also holds public workshops, including regular ones in the UK, Taiwan and India.
Guy lives in London with his wife, who is a portrait painter, and they both enjoy watching cricket and rugby. In addition to his finance books, he also writes fiction and history. He plays bridge to tournament standard and has reached the rank of Premier Master. He occasionally sings German lieder, and dances what he describes as a "very restrained" Argentinean Tango.
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