The Complete Direct Investing Handbook provides comprehensive guidelines, principles and practical perspectives on this increasingly attractive private equity investment strategy. Interviews with leading family office investors, qualified private equity buyers, and top direct investing advisors provide essential insights, and attention to the nuanced processes of direct investing. The books is a hands-on resource for family offices and those investors interested in generating returns through private company ownership to be more effective in creating returns in a complex market. Direct investing best practices are explored in-depth, with guidance on strategy and the evaluation and assessment of various investment opportunities. The process begins with a codified and specific investment goal, and a robust strategy tailored to the investor's individual needs. Useful insight on 'narrowing the field' helps investors select the appropriate opportunities to meet their investment goals, and practical tools help streamline the process of capital deployment and in turn providing more opportunities to achieve desired returns.

Despite the growing interest in direct investing, there is little public information available to investors and there is a lack of transparency into practical standards. This book bridges the gap between strategy and execution, with comprehensive guidance and real-world insights.

• Define and craft a focused investment thesis and appropriate timeline specific to your needs
• Identify the right type, size, duration, and risk profile aligned to your investment objectives
• Gain perspective on real-world direct investing and a deeper understanding of the risks and rewards
• Better understand best practices and institutional investment rigor to develop bespoke processes and policies that create better outcomes for independent investors

Historically, extraordinary wealth has been created through equity in privately-held enterprise. Today, family offices and direct investors are looking more and more toward large capital deployment in early-stage and growth-oriented private equity investments, but are constrained by a lack of informed, established practices. The Complete Direct Investing Handbook provides the much-needed guidance and tools that can improve direct investment outcomes.

Discover new insights on how to setup, manage, and advise wealthy families and their family offices

The Complete Family Office: A Guide for Affluent Families and the Advisors Who Serve Them, 2nd Edition represents the newest update to an essential series. This book prepares the members of wealthy families to collectively manage, sustain, and grow their wealth across multiple generations. It also assists professionals who advise families to better serve their needs.

This book teaches those who advise family offices and wealthy families on:

· How to setup, structure, and advise a family office

· Current compliance, fiduciary and risk management practices for a family office

· Forward-thinking investment management, estate planning, and private trust company considerations

· Fresh insights on philanthropy, legacy, and impact investing

· Best practices to managing family wealth education and preparing next generation owners

· New insights on family governance, strategic planning, and succession

· Methods to create a family constitution, mission, and vision for families and their family offices.

The Complete Family Office Handbook provides the most comprehensive, current research, practical guidance, and approaches from leading family offices from around the globe and illustrates, by way of practical case studies and examples, how families can effectively manage their wealth for the long term.