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The Move to Politics by Private Equity

September 9, 2013

There is no big secret that big business money often intersects with politics to get favorable candidates elected. Government has a direct influence on business with regards to industry regulation, laws, crime definitions, and of course the biggie, taxes. Within the rules that apply, business has injected itself into politics for decades, supporting campaigns of […]

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New Regulation in Insurance Will Crimp NY Private Equity

September 2, 2013

It’s bad enough that hedge funds are seeing their managers being chased down by law enforcement as well as civil investigators from the Securities Exchange Commission. Now the private equity side is also getting caught up in the target sites of regulators. According to the Huffington Post, New York state’s regulators are looking to tighten […]

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The Chase of the Next Big Thing: Silicon Beach

August 26, 2013

Private equity has a new home on the West Coast. The place is named Silicon Beach. This three mile stretch of the Los Angeles basin coastal area, including parts of Santa Monica down to Venice Beach, has become a hotbed of private investment in new Internet startups in the last few years. The activity has […]

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What has Private Equity Employment Done this Year?

August 5, 2013

With the Labor Department recently reporting that the economy added 162K seasonally adjusted jobs, one might wonder: how many jobs has the private equity industry added so far this year, and how does the private equity industry compare to other industries? Here are the numbers. Through the first six months of 2013, the private equity […]

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Blurring Private Equity and Venture Capital Distinctions

June 24, 2013

Most financial industry professionals would consider private equity and venture capital firms as competitors or at least semi-competitors. On the one hand, both types of firms are after a fixed amount of investor cash. In this sense, private equity and venture capital firms are competitors after the same color of cash. Firms within their respective […]

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Does Private Equity Help or Hurt the Infobesity Problem?

June 17, 2013

Does what private equity professionals do help or hurt the infobesity problem? Is there an infobesity problem? First some background. Over the past decade or so, the amount of digital and analog information in the world has grown at an exponential rate. One estimate of the total amount of information in the world is about […]

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Private Equity and Venture Capital IPO Sentiment

June 10, 2013

As every reader of this article knows, the private equity and venture capital industries are largely affected by business cycles and the associated sentiments. What does Pitchbook’s recently released private equity and venture capital IPO sentiment survey tell us? Here are participants’ answers to the six questions of the market conditions survey. IPO Filings, Pricings, […]

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A Private Equity Offer for Apple?

June 3, 2013

With Dell considering a move towards going private and BMC being taken private by Bain Capital and Golden Gate Partners, would this open the door to even more gigantic moves, such as Apple Inc. employing the services of the private equity industry? Consider the following quote: “Any company with cash on its balance sheet, little […]

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Q2 Private Equity Conditions

May 6, 2013

Pitchbook has released its Q2 2013 private equity conditions report. The report covers investment trends by deal size, industry, and region. Overall, as measured by the number of deals and size of deals, PE deal making slowed down in the first quarter of 2013. The number of deals declined by 26 percent, from 500 in […]

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Are Zombie Private Equity Funds a Problem?

April 15, 2013

Zombie private equity funds represent investment funds where money is tied up for years, with the manager having little to no profitable investment prospects, yet managers are still imposing fees on the tied up money. According to the Wall Street Journal, of the 10,000 or so private equity funds founded in the past decade, about […]

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