Does Academic Lineage Generate Excess Returns? Evidence from Deep-Tech Venture Capital
Mutual fund managers earn up to 7.8 percent a year more on firms whose board members share their educational networks.
Private markets Reports & Market Data (2026)
Key number
265 billion €
European infrastructure capital raised (2020 – H1 2025). SECA (Swiss Private Equity and Corporate Finance Association) p.57
Key number
€724 million
EIF social investment commitment in 2025. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) p.9
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Large pension funds do not invest more effectively than smaller pension funds
At year-end 2023, OECD countries held $63.1 trillion of assets earmarked for retirement, almost equal to their annual GDP.
Short and Long Shadows of Financial Investments
Financial markets operate across two temporal horizons: the speculative Short Future Shadow and the physical Long Shadow.
Shotgun Clause and the Contractual Resolution of Deadlocks Between Shareholders
Shareholder agreements in closely held corporations, regulated by Article 118 of Brazilian Law No. 6.404/1976, serve to maintain corporate stability but can face paralysis under equal or shared control.
Phantom Payrolls and the 56,000 JPY Bull-Trap Singularity: How Headline Labor Surprises Accelerate AI CapEx Deflation, Yen Carry Unwind to 120 JPY, and QFS-zkVM Margin-Call Interlocks
Headline employment upside surprises create a Phantom Payroll Divergence, where overall job additions hide structural contractions in high-wage white-collar technology payrolls [p.3].
Sustainability Investing in Family Offices: Evidence from Singapore
Family offices globally manage an estimated US$10 trillion in assets, with total sector numbers ranging from 8,000 to 17,000.
H1 2026 European Private Equity Activity
Preliminary fundraising figures for European PE/VC funds in H1 2026 reached €67.6bn, representing a 6% increase from the revised H1 2025 figure of €63.8bn.
Tax aggressiveness and business risk: how does firm performance affect their relationship?
The final study sample comprises 215 non-financial companies listed on B3 with 1,267 observations from 2010 to 2023.
Material Adverse Change Clauses in M&A Transactions: The Impact of Macroeconomic Events
Mergers and acquisitions transactions feature an interim period between signing and closing where commercial assumptions and target conditions may change before completion.
The Legal Legitimacy of Cross-Border RWA Financing: Challenges and Responses
The research analyzes cross-border Real-World Asset (RWA) financing structures originating in Mainland China and issued via a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) in Hong Kong.
Current Strategies for Financing Enterprise Development: An Innovative and Harmonious Approach
Asset tokenization serves as a digital financing mechanism converting real asset rights into blockchain-based tokens (page 2).
Shariah Board Oversight, Supervisory Authority, and Regulatory Frameworks: A Comparative Study of Islamic Asset Management in Nigeria and Malaysia
The study analyzed Shariah governance using a sample of 180 respondents from Islamic asset management institutions in Nigeria and Malaysia.
When Does ESG Create Value? Corporate Governance as a Moderating Mechanism in Indian Firms
The study analyzes 711 firm-year observations across 341 firms listed on the National Stock Exchange of India between 2019 and 2023.
Are the Hedges of Funds Green?
The sample hedge funds report an average monthly AUM of $396.773 million, a average monthly rate of return of 0.564%, and a monthly 7-factor alpha of 0.144%.
Sustainability Scores and Tax Risk Differently Moderate Corporate Tax Avoidance Valuation
The study analyzes an unbalanced panel of 91 observations from 25 basic materials and energy companies during 2020–2024.
Financing the Renewable Energy Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review of Investment Instruments, Market Models and Institutional Constraints
An initial database search yielded 198 records concerning renewable energy financing in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Registered Venture Capital Plans: Fixing Canada's Entrepreneurship and Scale-Up Crisis
Canada's business entry rates fell from 24.5% in the 1980s to roughly 13% pre-pandemic, with fewer than 1.5% of small businesses ever scaling into medium or large firms.
Minority Shareholder Protection under Zimbabwe’s Companies and Other Business Entities Act (2019)
Zimbabwe's Companies and Other Business Entities Act [Chapter 24:31] (2019) (COBE) provides a framework balancing majority rule with minority investor safeguards.
Frontier Markets, Marginal Flows: Vietnamese Private Outward Investment in Africa and South Asia, 2015–2025
By the end of 2025, Vietnamese investors held 1,991 valid overseas investment projects across 85 countries and territories, with cumulative registered capital exceeding US$23.7 billion.
The Role of Firm Age in Moderating the Effect of Underwriter Reputation and Firm Size on Underpricing in IPO Companies for the Period 2021-2024
Underpricing dominated Indonesian IPOs during 2021–2024 at 76.08% of companies, while overpricing accounted for 21.53% and fair pricing for 2.89%.
Beyond Kelsen and the Boi Gordo Case: The Pyramid of Responsive Regulation as a New Paradigm for Cryptoactives in the Brazilian Capital Markets
Formal legal subsumption fails to fully address decentralized finance, tokens, and autonomous organizations, requiring criteria based on agent behavior, risk, and proportional state response [p.1].
Financial Investors and For-Profit Providers as New Players in Global Healthcare: The Politics and Practices of Health System Financialisation
An international workshop was organized in May 2025 to evaluate the impact of for-profit providers and financial investors in healthcare across national borders.
Does Institutional Quality Condition the Contribution of Foreign Direct Investment to Economic Growth in the ECCAS?
Net foreign direct investment flows to the ECCAS region declined to approximately -$0.1 billion in 2022, down from around $2 billion in 2017.
From Emotional Impulse to Recurring Revenue: Consumer Psychology, Unit Economics, and VC Investment Evaluation of AI Companion Hardware for Gen Z
Generation Z (born 1995–2010) represents the primary target demographic for early-stage AI companion hardware startups.
The Trillion-Dollar Illusion?
OpenAI disclosed $122 billion in committed financing at an $852 billion post-money valuation in March 2026.
Citizen-Majority Tokenized Ownership for MSME Revival in India: The G-CMTO Model Integrating Blockchain, the e-Rupee and the MicroSME–Blockchain Index
India's MSMEs generate 31.1% of GDP and 48.58% of exports, yet face an addressable credit gap of roughly ₹30 lakh crore.
Challenges and Opportunities of Capital Market Efficiency in the Digital Era
As of August 2025, Indonesia recorded approximately 17.6 million Single Investor Identification (SID) accounts in its capital market.
An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Applications in Mutual Fund Management
Mutual funds collect capital from multiple investors to purchase pooled baskets of stocks, bonds, and monetary assets.
ECB Perception of Non-Banks: A Machine Learning-Based Approach
The authors construct an index tracking the European Central Bank's perception of non-bank financial intermediaries using 2,830 speeches delivered between July 1998 and June 2024.
Business Sentiment and FDI Dynamics in Brazil: An Econometric Assessment of Investor Confidence, 2000–2025
Brazilian Business Outlook declined significantly between 2000 and 2025 at −0.42 points per year (p = 0.005).