A Systematic Risk Analysis of
Listed Private Equity

Abstract

This study aims at dissecting the systematic risk of listed private equity (LPE) empirically through the decomposition of its beta. Instead of testing the assertion that LPE is a good proxy of unlisted private equity, the study intends to provide potential investors with better information regarding LPE’s systematic risk and to have a better reference to obtain the relevant cost of capital when evaluating individual LPE firm.