Fundamentals of a Search Fund |
October 2022.
By Lenka Kolarova, Peter Kelly, Jan Simon and Rob Johnson from Iese EIC, Business School, University of Navarra.
This note reports a biennial study, performed by the IESE Business School, of search funds that were formed outside the United States and Canada. Undertaken in partnership with the Stanford Graduate School of Business, it uses a quantitative survey-based research method to gain insight into the financial returns and important characteristics of “international” (non-U.S. and Canada) search funds, including the qualities of search fund entrepreneurs and companies. The study targeted all known search funds outside the United States and Canada, in close coordination with a concurrent Stanford study, using data drawn from 211 first-time search funds. The sample set included international searchers from 34 countries on five continents.
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