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A 401k with Private Equity Investments

April 8, 2013

How welcomed would the idea be of private equity investments in your 401k? Well, according to Fortune magazine, the idea may not be far off for the non-accredited investor (non-millionaire, non-institutional investor). It’s long been an untapped market for the private equity industry, made up for by the fact that around a quarter of all […]

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Disadvantages of Private Equity Emerging Managers

April 1, 2013

Private equity emerging managers face many disadvantages on the road to success. This article discusses seven of them. Before addressing the disadvantages of private equity emerging managers, here’s a brief review from last week of the advantages emerging managers have (further discussion is available here). Private equity emerging managers have the ability to make potentially […]

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Advantages of Private Equity Emerging Managers

March 25, 2013

Emerging managers in the private equity world face a laundry list of advantages and disadvantages to getting their businesses up and running. The challenges – both the positive and negative – are perhaps more strongly felt in the private equity realm than in many other professions. This post discusses eight advantages of emerging managers, with […]

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Private Equity Without a Financial Background

March 18, 2013

In JobSearchDigest.com’s recently released “2013 Private Equity & VC Compensation Report,” there are two charts of interest to followers of the private equity industry job market: the first is regarding how the survey respondent found his or her current position; the second deals with what the individual did before entering the private equity industry. The […]

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Downward Trend in Private Equity IRRs

March 11, 2013

In the recently released first quarter of 2013 private equity (PE) /venture capital (VC) benchmarking brief, Pitchbook reports the global average internal rates of return (IRR) for four fund types and all private equity funds (buyout funds, venture capital funds, mezzanine funds, and fund of funds funds). Which specialty area would you guess comes out […]

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Commodity Prices and Private Equity

March 4, 2013

Oil, the world’s black gold, is currently trading at about $93 per barrel, or about 116 ($50 per barrel) percent higher than it was during its low in the first quarter of 2009. With the price of oil now generally ticking upwards, one might reasonably ask what’s causing the oil price fluctuations. Of course, there […]

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Bond Ratings, the Sequester, and Private Equity

February 25, 2013

With the sequester set to provide some sanity to the U.S. debt situation, financial professionals and the public at large are questioning how the cost savings (reducing unnecessary federal spending) are going to affect connected political entities. That’s exactly what professionals at bond rating agencies have been doing recently, with, for example, Moody’s recently releasing […]

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Private Equity Employment and the JOBS Act

February 18, 2013

The Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act of 2011, originally proposed by President Obama and passed by Congress on April 5, 2011, changed regulations related to advertising, marketing, and investor relations for, among others, private equity managers. The general thinking is that by reducing the red-tape associated with investments and business capital, employment growth will […]

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Sequestration and the Consensus Private Equity View

February 11, 2013

In about two weeks the federal government is set to begin the first stages of reducing the costs of government. In everyday language, the actions are known as “sequestration” or “budget cuts.” The issue, of course, is a hot button, in that a number of political analysts, policy experts, economists, and investors appear to believe […]

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How Did Private Equity Employment Compare in 2012

February 4, 2013

The numbers are in. Among the three classifications of employment — private equity, investment banking, and the hedge fund industry — which industry would you guess performed the best among the three? Well, overall private equity saw the largest increase in employment, growing by about 1k over their 2011 tally. In contrast, hedge fund and […]

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