The State of the Middle Markets:
Evidence from the
Pepperdine Private Capital Markets Project
Thur. July 21st at 11:00am
Dr. John Paglia, Pepperdine University
“Very informative.”
“Well spoken. Terrific points.”
“Loved the timely date and analysis.”
These are reviews from our California Chapter Meeting last week in LA where John Paglia was our Opening Keynote Speaker. Don't miss out on the opportunity to hear him speak at the summer conference! He will share results from the Summer 2011 Pepperdine Private Capital Markets Project report, addressing general trends and forecasts for privately-held businesses.
Dr. Paglia, a former Julian Virtue and Denney Professorship recipient, is an associate professor of finance at Pepperdine University. He has over ten years of university teaching experience in finance, performs business valuations for privately-held companies, and has testified as an expert on economic damage and valuation matters.
Under Dr. Paglia's direction, the Pepperdine Private Capital Markets Project has resulted in over 20,000 report downloads in more than 60 countries.
His research has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and The New York Times, been published in a number of journals including The Graziadio Business Report, Banks and Bank Systems, Bank Accounting and Finance, Risk Management Association Journal, Journal of Wealth Management, Trusts and Estates, BetterManagement.com, Accounting World, Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India Journal, and been presented at domestic and international conferences. He has also been quoted in Dow Jones Newswires, Yahoo Finance, BusinessWire, VCExperts.com, PEHub, VentureBeat, Forbes, The San Jose Mercury, The Ventura County Star, The Pacific Coast Business Times, Men's Health, and other well-known publications. Dr. Paglia holds a Ph.D. in Finance, an MBA, a B.S. in Finance, and is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).
In 2004, Robert T. Slee wrote "Private Capital Markets: Valuation, Capitalization, and Transfer of Private Business Interests." In his book, Mr. Slee made the point that private capital markets are very important: they contain millions of companies, which collectively account for over 99% of the businesses in the U.S. In addition, private companies generate nearly half of the U.S. GDP and employment levels. He further asserts that private capital markets are unique and not adequately described by corporate financial theory. This led Slee to establish a theoretical framework by which to examine the opaque private capital markets.Realizing the need to disseminate complete private capital market data over periodic intervals, the members of the project team joined together to tackle this goal. The founding members of the project team are
Click Here to download the recently released report updating on private lending and investing for Summer 2011.
See these two articles from the Wall Street Journal in which the project results appeared in the last week.
Small Business Lending DropsStudy: Capital Still Tight for Small Firms
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