疫情之下,山川异域,风月同天。
盛夏六月,共聚连线,不“见”不散。
由于疫情影响,UPEC原定于6月举行的学生发展-国际游学模块没有办法成行,但是这挡不住同学们拓宽国际视野的热情,也挡不住UPEC带着同学们走出去看看的决心。经过为期一个月的精心准备和沟通,游学终于从线上走到了线上,成功举办了云游学-“杠杆收购与不良资产交易方向”的活动,UPEC邀请到了伦敦商学院会计学教授、会计系主任、商学院私募股权中心学术主任Florin Vasvari为同学们带来为期两天的课程,内容包括杠杆收购、不良投资、私募股权等方向的讲座,以及相关的案例实践,丰富的课堂内容和案例式的教学方式让同学们收获良多。
学术课
课程主要包括学术课与实践课,第一天的课程介绍了杠杆收购交易与杠杆收购建模,包括杠杆收购中的价值创造、收购交易中的运营杠杆、债务能力评估以及杠杆收购(LBO)模型的结构。例如对于同学们普遍感兴趣的私募股权投资展开了详细讲解,私募股权基金是从事私人股权(非上市公司股权)投资的基金。主要包括投资非上市公司股权或上市公司非公开交易股权两种。追求的不是股权收益,而是通过上市、管理层收购和并购等股权转让路径出售股权而获利。其主要特点有以下几点:首先是私募股权基金的募集对象范围相对公募基金要窄,但是其募集对象都是资金实力雄厚、资本构成质量较高的机构或个人,这使得其募集的资金在质量和数量上不一定亚于公募基金。可以是个人投资者,也可以是机构投资者。其次为股权投资;除单纯的股权投资外,出现了变相的股权投资方式(如以可转换债券或附认股权公司债等方式投资),和以股权投资为主、债权投资为辅的组合型投资方式。这些方式是私募股权在投资工具、投资方式上的一大进步。股权投资虽然是私募股权投资基金的主要投资方式,其主导地位也并不会轻易动摇,但是多种投资方式的兴起,多种投资工具的组合运用,也已形成不可阻挡的潮流。
不可忽视的是私募股权投资的风险,首先源于其相对较长的投资周期。因此,私募股权基金想要获利,必须付出一定的努力,不仅要满足企业的融资需求,还要为企业带来利益,这注定是个长期的过程。再者,私募股权投资成本较高,这一点也加大了私募股权投资的风险。此外,私募股权基金投资风险大,还与股权投资的流通性较差有关。
股权投资不像证券投资可以直接在二级市场上买卖,其退出渠道有限,而有限的几种退出渠道在特定地域或特定时间也不一定很畅通。一般而言,PE成功退出一个被投资公司后,其获利可能是3~5倍,而在我国,这个数字可能是20~30倍。高额的回报,诱使巨额资本源源不断地涌入PE市场。
一般而言,私募股权基金中有一支专业的基金管理团队,具有丰富的管理经验和市场运作经验,能够帮助企业制定适应市场需求的发展战略,对企业的经营和管理进行改进。但是,私募股权投资者仅仅以参与企业管理,而不以控制企业为目的。
同时在课程的讲解中,还展示了一些有趣的数据现象,例如私募股权投资的企业数量在逐年上升并逐渐超过公开市场发行的企业数量,通过直观的图示让同学们对整个资本市场的运作以及私募股权投资在其中的分量都有了直观的了解。
实践课
接下来开启了第一节实践课,以TeamSport (& Duke Street)为背景案例,鲜活的案例与详实的收购细节展示了杠杆收购中的机遇与挑战,加强了新一代投资专才建立对西方如何运作杠杆交易的认识。通过实际案例了解如进行收购中的价值创造,同时见证投资者如何运营杠杆取得卓人成绩,并在这个过程中解析债务能力、提供财务建模的学习机会,提高同学们解决实际问题的能力。
课程二则聚焦于危机时期如何投资陷于困境的公司,理解不良投资作为私募股权投资的重要利基并了解不良债务投资的基本原则,包括主要不良投资策略、不良企业资产的基本估值、了解如何重组陷于财务困境的公司的资产负债表的技巧。
不良资产是一个泛概念,它是针对会计科目里的坏账科目来讲的,主要但不限于包括银行的不良资产,政府的不良资产,证券、保险、资金的不良资产,企业的不良资产。金融企业是不良资产的源头。从目前状况来看,预计将要面临一个世纪以来全球经济最严重的衰退期,小微企业更显得无比脆弱;而数据显示,投资于处于或接近破产的财务困境公司发行的证券的不良债务与特殊情况策略构成了3390亿美元,占私募市场资产管理规模的6%,这也表明自信贷危机以来,信贷资金大幅增加,而“不良资产投资”主要是私募股权公司管理的信贷基金的一种次级策略。
接下来为了增强对不良资产课程内容的理解,开展了第二堂实践课,以Blantyre Capital (& Moonlight Hospital)为案例背景,推动同学们对私募股权投资市场别具特色的特殊情形投资的认识,探讨投资/收购陷于财务危机企业的经验(过程、步骤,例如挑选甄别该范畴适合投资的公司)。在这一过程中使得同学们进一步领略到教授这门课程对理解投资的助益性。
最后设立了问答环节,同学们根据课程所学结合自身经验提出了疑问,通过和教授的共同探究,寻觅更多问题的答案。短短两天时间,同学们获益良多,云游学的成功举办离不开老师和同学们的共同努力,希望短暂的云上相聚为同学们打开探索的大门,在未来的时光里继续求索。
Key takeaways from students
林展越 2019 MF
•Having an enhanced understanding of the typical structure, compensation setting, investment strategies of the private equity funds. Find out the fact that private equity investments have played a more and more important role in corporation development and financial market.
•Learned basic financial modelling of LBO and distressed investing by real-world case. Understand how the usage of bond financing works in a buyout deal.
•In a special period when companies are faced with Covid-19, distressed investing may be popular in practice. This up-to-date course shows how private equity firms make profit in different stages of a distressed investing and how to evaluate the investment opportunities.
王言 2021 GMIM(预录取)
许孝宸 2021 GMIM(预录取)
•Firstly, the course offers a high-level picture of PE industry as well as the basics such as the structure of a PE fund, the relationship between LP and GP and the key characteristics of a private equity fund. The opening section of the course is just like a Private Equity 101 whcih is extremely friendly and useful to a PE newbie like me.
•Secondly, the theory is backed by detailed cases. Through the cases of Teamsport and Moonlight Hospital, I really find out how the fund operates, how it estimates the IRR and what are the investors' top priorities.
•Thirdly, Professor Florin Vasvari, as a PE veteran who possesses decades of experiences, provides valuable insights and suggestions on our career planning and development. One of the most impressive thing I learn is that the turnover rate for Banking is high while the one for PE is low because of the carry mechanism. This takeaway really shed light on my future planning.
付昊皓 2021 MF(预录取)
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樊博文 2020 MF
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马润玮 2020 MF
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刘梦羽 2021 GMIM(预录取)
This two-day course provided me with systematic knowledge about private equity funds, especially leveraged buyout and distressed investment. As a junior student from foreign language department, so far I have not yet gone this further in the world of equity and investment. In my past internships, I got to know some basic knowledges about fund evaluation, but it might be impossible for one to learn the whole picture - characteristics, strategies, performances, models and so forth by any single experience, yet this online course did.
In the first lecture we learnt the basics of PE funds, which definitely will lay down a solid foundation for my future study; then in the second more cases that closely related to the pandemic and real-world practice were shown and deeply discussed. Through theory learning and case study where the operating logic of PE funds were shown, I was quickly invited to the world of PE funds. Thanks to Professor Florin Vasvari, I have become one step closer to my future goals; thanks to Fudan for this great opportunity, I am really looking forward to my graduate life and I believe both the LBS and Fudan will be the environment conducive to refining our professional skills and real-world business exposure.
朱正尧 2020 MF
王淇晨 2021 MF(预录取)
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