Private equity investments

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2001-11-14

2008-09-16

Cheung, Mary (Department: 3694)

Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co

Automated electrical financial or business practice or...

Finance

C705S035000

Reexamination Certificate

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07426488

ABSTRACT:
In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes a computer program for analyzing private equity investments. The program includes instructions that access public equity data identifying performance of a set of more than one public equities. The instructions also access private equity data identifying one or more characteristics of different private equity investments. The program analyzes a private equity investment based, at least in part, on the public equity data and the private equity data of other private equity investments.

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