The Keith Arundale Website

  My chapter on Venture Capital has now been published in the online edition of The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Interest Groups, Lobbying and Public Affairs:   Arundale K. (2021) Venture Capital. In: Harris P., Bitonti A., Fleisher C.S., Skorkjær Binderkrantz A. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Interest Groups, Lobbying and Public Affairs. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13895-0_187-1 […]

  There is little published information on the current investment practices of Chinese venture capital funds. Which practices lead to better returns for investments and VC funds? How do the investment practices vary between China based funds and China focused funds and amongst the different regions in Greater China? How do they compare to those […]

My article on “Supporting start-ups during the COVID-19 crisis” appeared in Henley News today (13 August 2020) from Henley Business School, University of Reading:  https://www.henley.ac.uk/news/2020/supporting-start-ups-during-the-covid-19-crisis Unemployment in the UK is set to rise to as high as 9% later this year when the UK Government’s furloughing scheme comes to an end. Currently the government is paying […]

Private Equity & Venture Capital: Riding the COVID-19 crisis by Keith Arundale and Colin Mason is published in the new, on-line book “A new world post-COVID-19: Lessons for business, the finance industry and policy makers”. The book is co-edited by Henley Business School, University of Reading  and Ca ‘Foscari University of Venice and is available via this link.   Abstract: Private equity has […]

Insights into the impact of COVID-19 on different areas of business and finance have been shared by academics in a new book published online on 31 July 2020.  “A new world post-COVID-19: Lessons for business, the finance industry and policy makers” is co-edited by Henley Business School, University of Reading  and Ca ‘Foscari University of Venice and […]

Article in ICAEW Insights quarterly magazine this month on the outlook for start-ups in a post-pandemic business world when support schemes draw to a close:  https://www.icaew.com/insights/features/2020/july-2020/the-covid-19-struggle-facing-start-ups Stop press: Look out for a “A new world post COVID-19: lessons for business, the finance industry and policy makers” (Editors: Monica Billio and Simone Varotto) to be published by Ca’ […]

California Dreaming – Corporate Financier Jul-Aug 2020 My thanks to Shaun Beaney of the ICAEW Corporate Finance Faculty for his review of my book “Venture Capital Performance” in the July/August 2020 issue of “Corporate Financier” magazine: https://tinyurl.com/CFF-JulAug20 (page 25). As Shaun comments “China is racing up the VC rankings. Europe – with London as its most successful hub […]

Private equity with its long term investment horizons, with funds typically having lives of 10 years or more, is usually less susceptible to the ups and downs of economic cycles. The asset class successfully weathered the 2008 financial crash, although debt was initially hard to come by, and with far fewer failures than had been […]

CISI Review article – Keith Arundale The October 2019 issue of Review of Financial Markets (RoFM) in the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment CISI Review journal features analysis of the difference between US and European venture capital funds (my PhD research – see article above); a look at the role and purpose of finance […]

My new book “Venture Capital Performance: A Comparative Study of Investment Practices in Europe and the USA” is to be published by Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group) in December 2019. For details see: https://www.routledge.com/Venture-Capital-Performance-A-Comparative-Study-of-Investment-Practices/Arundale/p/book/9780429318214 The book is based on my research into venture capital fund performance and VC investment practices in UK/Europe and USA. European VC funds have […]