The latest private equity supplement published by the Birmingham Post is now online and ready to read.

It marks the 30th anniversary of the Centre for Management Buyout Research, the body based at Imperial College London which was the first centre of its kind devoted to the study of private equity and buyouts.

The centre monitors and analyses management buyouts, with and without private equity investment, in a comprehensive and objective way.

There is also a look at that most-renowned of investors, American Warren Buffett, while Andy Lyndon from private equity house LDC assess the potential for returns from the region's many manufacturing companies.

Andrew Lane, chief executive of ammunition manufacturer Eley, discusses his own management buyout of the Sutton Coldfield-based company.

The full supplement can be read online here via the Birmingham Post's dedicated PageSuite website.