Private Equity Professionals Handling the Fiscal Cliff?

November 26, 2012

How might the fiscal cliff be handled by private equity professionals in comparison to elected officials? Private equity professionals are a very dissimilar bunch of individuals, although there is a common thread among this group – the competitive search for maximum output at minimum cost. Certain unaware individuals may assume, based upon a few selected […]

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Private Equity Business and Secession

November 19, 2012

With the presidential election now over and calls for secession appearing in a good number of states, one might wonder: how would various secession scenarios affect the private equity industry? Well, perhaps the best place to start is with the states that appear to have the strongest movement towards seceding from the Union – Texas […]

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Is Tax Uncertainty Hurting Private Equity Dealmaking?

November 12, 2012

Is tax uncertainty hurting private equity deal making? In about a month, the new year – 2013 – will ring in a number of new or renewed tax increases.  In either a direct or indirect manner, the rate increases will affect virtually all individuals and businesses. In a direct manner, individuals with capital gains or […]

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Financial Capital Cities in a Generation or Two

November 5, 2012

History is full of the ascendance and deterioration of financial capital cities.  Although weakened over the past 10 years, the United States still reigns as the financial capital of the world , with businesses in New York and Chicago providing the largest amount of financial intermediary services within the United States. Rank Financial Capital Financial […]

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Private Equity Fundraising Grew in Q3 2012

November 5, 2012

Despite ongoing economic uncertainty, investor appetite for private equity deals remained robust in the third quarter as private equity funds raised a total of $64 billion during the quarter, roughly 10 percent more than the third quarter of 2011. The private equity capital raise during the September quarter was however well below the $83 billion […]

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Private Equity and VC Compensation Survey Now Open

October 30, 2012

The sixth annual Private Equity Compensation Survey is underway and investment professionals in venture capital and private equity are invited to participate. The online survey can be completed in under 10 minutes and it enables investment professionals to provide direct input into the compensation benchmarks. Eligible survey participants receive the final 2013 Private Equity Compensation […]

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Private Equity Firms Turn to Debt-funded Dividend Recapitalizations for Exits

October 25, 2012

The slowdown in mergers and acquisitions as a result of global economic uncertainty has prompted private equities to take the dividend recapitalization route to bolster returns. Data from credit agency Standard & Poor’s shows that debt issued to fund private equity dividends has already topped $54 billion this year, easily beating the record $40.5 billion […]

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The Market for Private Equity Wealth Creation

October 23, 2012

Most investors in financial assets have pretty much a myopic view of asset wealth accumulation – stocks and bonds.  Of course, it’s not just novice or certain types of advanced investors that place great weight on equities and debt – academia, the political world, and professional financial organizations tend to have a large portion of […]

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Capital Gains Taxes: A $0.9 Billion Increase on Private Equity

October 22, 2012

Capital gains taxes are set to rise come January 1st, with the capital gains tax rate rising from anywhere between 9 percent if you’re in the current 33 percent  bracket to 50 percent if you’re in the lowest bracket.  The capital gains tax rate is set to increase by 13 percent if you’re in the […]

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Romney and Private Equity Job Creation

October 18, 2012

With the presidential election bringing private equity and wealth creation to the fore, one might reasonably ask: first, did Romney really create 100,000 jobs and second, what kind of economic impact did Romney’s Bain Capital have on the economy as a whole?  The first question is an accounting exercise using varying assumptions regarding the time […]

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