Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship (벤처창업연구)

The Korean Society of Business Venturing (한국벤처창업학회)
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Analysis on Korean Fund of Funds

국내 모태펀드의 성과에 대한 연구

  • KANG, Won (School of Business, Sejong University)
  • 강원 (세종대학교 경영학과)
  • Received : 2019.10.29
  • Accepted : 2019.12.26
  • Published : 2019.12.31
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Abstract

Since 2005, Korea Venture Investment Corp. (KVIC) has been managing Korean Fund of Funds (KFoF) which helped greatly the domestic venture capitals create their private funds. Its contribution, however, is not limited fetching the pump. When KFoF decides to invest in VC funds, it demands very strict rules the VC funds need to follow before and after their investments in private equities. Whether this tight control of investments does hinder GPs' creativity or rather enhance GPs' transparency and professionalism is an open question subject to empirical tests. If KFoF is only fetching the pump, and neither fund size or time horizon improves VC funds' return rates, then KFoF's involvement in VC funds should not be positively related to VC funds' return rates. If, on the other hand, KFoF harms GPs' creativity, KFoF's involvement should be negatively related to VC funds' performances. Still, if KFoF promotes GPs' transparency and professionalism, its presence in VC funds should positively affect the returns earned by VC funds. Even when KFoF only got to get quality VC funds because those GPs good enough to stand up to the tight conditions set forth by KFoF, the empirical implication will yield the same results. In this article, empirical tests are carried out using the data provided by Korea Venture Capital Association. The VC funds formed and liquidated from 2000 to 2018 are selected for the tests. The results show that VC funds with the presence of KFoF exceed VC funds without KFoF in returns, which supports the hypothesis that KFoF enhances transparency and professionalism of VC funds.

2005년부터 한국벤처투자(주)에 의해 운용되고 있는 국내 모태펀드는 그동안 민간VC들의 펀드조성을 원활하게 하는 역할을 수행해 왔다. 그러나 모태펀드의 기여는 기타 LP를 유인하는 마중물 역할에만 국한되지는 않는다. 모태펀드가 출자할 때는 GP에게 투자실행 과정과 사전/사후적 과정에서 철저한 관리를 요구한다. 이러한 관리가 GP의 창의성을 저해하는지 아니면 오히려 GP의 투명성과 전문성을 높이는 지는 실증적인 질문이 될 것이다. 만약 모태펀드의 출자가 마중물 역할만 하고, 펀드의 크기나 운용기간이 VC펀드의 수익률에 양의 영향을 주지 않는다면, 모태펀드의 출자여부는 자펀드의 수익률에 영향을 줄 이유가 없다. 만약 모태펀드의 관리가 GP의 창의성을 저해한다면 모태펀드의 출자는 펀드 수익률에 음의 영향을 줄 것이다. 그러나 모태펀드의 출자가 GP의 투명성과 전문성을 향상시킨다면 자펀드의 수익률에 유의한 양의 영향을 줄 것이다. 또는 모태펀드가 제시하는 관리요건을 충족할 수 있는 GP만이 모태펀드의 출자를 받을 수 있기 때문에 결국 모태펀드는 우수한 GP를 택하게 된다고 해도 실증결과는 동일할 것이다. 본 연구에서는 벤처캐피탈협회로부터 제공받은 자료를 토대로 2000년부터 2018년까지 펀드결성과 청산을 마친 펀드로 표본을 구성하고, 모태펀드의 출자를 받은 하위표본과 그렇지 않은 하위 표본을 나누어 비교분석하였다. 그 결과 모태펀드의 출자를 받은 VC펀드가 더 높은 수익률을 보였음을 보고하면서, 모태펀드가 GP의 전문성을 재고하는 역할도 가지고 있다는 가설을 지지하였다.

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