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Private Equity Jobs

How Long Can the Labor Market Keep Accelerating? Hint: It’s a While

March 23, 2015

There has been lots of chatter recently about the strength of the U.S. employment picture. The early March knockout employment report, at +295K net new jobs, seems to have increased the discussion about whether the employment picture is peaking. Is it? How much longer can the labor market keep accelerating? (As a note, acceleration means that the […]

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Private Equity: Before and After 2008

March 9, 2015

After the dot-com bubble burst in 2000, all markets collapsed. However, amidst the rubble, private equity found a bid. In September 2003, the Carlyle Group and Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe closed the second and final part (Dex West) of their purchase of Qwest Communications’ yellow page directories business. The second part of the transaction […]

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Pay and Performance in 2014

February 9, 2015

In the financial sector, pay is, unsurprisingly, a big factor in employees’ satisfaction. What does Job Search Digest’s recent compensation report indicate happened with pay changes in the past year? Here’s a look. Change in Pay from 2013 to 2014 The first measure compares the growth in pay from 2013 to 2014 among firms operating in the […]

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A 2015 Outlook for Private Equity Jobs

December 15, 2014

2014 is coming to an end. With the year almost over, it seems fitting to review h ow private equity employment did through the year and what we can expect for the year ahead. A Look Back at 2014 – Actual Employment The following is a look at total private equity employment since 1990. Overall, […]

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A Year into Italian Crowdfunding: How is it Looking?

September 22, 2014

It’s been a year since Italian policymakers loosened bureaucratic control over the start-up world. How have things gone during the first year of Italy’s crowdfunding? Background of Italy’s Crowdfunding As some history, Italian politicians are the first in the world to allow retail equity crowdfunding, with “no” limits on investment options. The “no” limits statement […]

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The Universities of Top VC-Backed Entrepreneurs

September 8, 2014

Pitchbook is out with their annual review of which universities are producing the most venture capital-backed entrepreneurs. Where would you guess these entrepreneurs attended school? On top of the 2014 list are entrepreneurs out of Stanford at $3.52 billion. In second place is Harvard at $3.24 billion. Rounding out the top ten are the Indian Institute […]

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Should PE Professionals be Nervous When Looking at the Pace in Mergers and Acquisitions Volume?

August 11, 2014

In the mergers and acquisitions world (M&A), 2014 is off to an incredible start. We’ve seen Valeant’s $46 billion proposal for Allergan (April 22). About a month later, May 18, we saw AT&T acquire DirectTV . On June 15, Medtronic acquired Covidien in a deal worth about $43 billion. Earlier in the year we digested Comcast’s […]

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How has Financial Employment Performed by President?

July 28, 2014

Pretty much everyone knows the western world is experiencing one of the worst recoveries on record. This is quite evident when looking at the incredibly long time it took for employment to get back to where it was in 2008, by the tentative growth in GDP, by the weakness in wage inflation, by the stubbornly […]

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Why Are Venture Capitalists So Interested in Education?

June 16, 2014

Innovation in the education area may have a bright future after all, at least if one judges it by the exponential growth in venture capital interest. Overall, data out of Pitchbook indicate strong growth in deal activity and the total invested capital in U.S.-based education startups over the past ten years. Total invested capital has grown […]

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Is Politics Dominating Central Banks Now?

June 2, 2014

The practice of central banking involves a good deal of guesswork on behalf of economists. When one combines economists’ guesswork with interested elected representatives, one gets a fascinating dynamic whereby there’s a constant push and pull on monetary policy. There was a time, not long ago, when economists fiercely defended the idea of a politically […]

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