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A Look at the Private Equity Fund Manager Outlook

August 7, 2017

Every half of the year Preqin, the private equity and venture capital research group, does a “Private Equity Fund Manager Outlook”. They’re out with their second half of 2017 picture. Here’s a look at what private equity fund mangers think on deal flow and competition, investor appetite, and outlook and future plans. Deal Flow and […]

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Private Equity in Europe

July 10, 2017

Europe is known for a lot of things – good food, amazing vacation locations, obsessive regulations, slow economic growth, densely packed housing, and a host of others. Finance is also something Europe generally does well. This led us to wonder which European country has the largest private equity investments as a percentage of Gross Domestic […]

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What’s Going On With Exit Value and Post-Money Valuation?

April 17, 2017

In the past few quarters, we’ve seen an interesting trend in the venture capital exit markets. This trend is that there’s a growing number of deals where the exit value is less than the most recent round of post-money valuation. Some say it might be a disturbing trend – after all, how could it be […]

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Looking Back – and then Forward – on the Financial Industry Jobs Picture

April 3, 2017

The jobs market looks good. In 2016, the U.S. economy created about 2.2 million jobs. That’s slightly lower than the 2.7 million in 2015 and 3.0 million in 2014. Wages, a laggard in the current economic boom, are also starting to show up stronger. Wages accelerated to 2.8 percent year-over-year growth in 2016, a fairly […]

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Private Acquirers vs Public Acquirers – Who Performs Best?

March 20, 2017

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are a massive component in global financial activity, amounting to perhaps $5 trillion in activity in 2015 alone. With such a large dollar volume, some analysts (mostly academics) wonder why a large portion of studies on M&A activity show very little financial gain to the acquiring firm from their M&A activity. […]

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The Changing Face of Private Equity

August 22, 2016

If there’s any sector of the global economy that’s changed since the onset of the global financial crisis in 2008, it’s the financial industry. The industry, often blamed as part of the root cause of the global malaise, has grown and shifted attention (sometimes) quite dramatically over the past eights years. Of the many sectors […]

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Which President Was the Best for Venture Capital?

June 14, 2016

It’s presidential election season. What better time than now to ask which president since 1985 has seen the strongest venture capital performance during his administration? (Note: the choice of 1985 is based purely on availability of reliable data. If further historical were readily available, it would have been included in this article.) Within this period are […]

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Looking at the Private Equity Compensation Picture

May 3, 2016

Every now and then (perhaps more often if you work in the financial industry), one should take a look at the compensation picture and compare how one is doing to others working in the same universe. Each year, Job Search Digest conducts a comprehensive survey of private equity and venture capital professionals to reveal insights into […]

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SEC Thinks Its Valuations Are Better than Private Equity Professionals’

April 25, 2016

If you pay fairly close attention to financial regulation news, one topic showed up frequently last week. The topic – private equity and venture capital valuations and the SEC’s chair Mary Joe White’s belief that valuations may be approaching bubble territory. Her comment, while speaking at Stanford University: “In the unicorn context, there is a […]

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Was 2015 the Bonus Peak or Will 2016 Surpass It?

March 7, 2016

In the private equity and venture capital world, as with most any other industries, money talks. More so than in most other industries, in the private equity and venture capital industries, money not only talks, but often controls the conversation. The current discussion point here is – can 2016 bonus pay beat what appears to […]

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