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How to Revive Your Private Equity Career

September 21, 2009

Nitin Gupta, an executive search expert at Spencer Stuart in India, had some good advice for financial professionals who may have 20 or more years of work experience but have either hit a plateau or found themselves out of a job. “What looks like a career setback can be an opportunity to leap into a […]

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Tips for Your Private Equity Job Search

September 14, 2009

The Wall Street Journal has been following the lives of several senior professionals in finance who lost their jobs during the recent downturn. One of them, Heidi Mannetter, formerly a senior marketing strategist at Principal Financial Group Inc., offers some useful advice for anyone hunting for a job right now, including jobs in private equity. […]

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Women Underrepresented in Private Equity Jobs

September 7, 2009

Women make up only 10 percent of the 700 plus professionals at Europe’s biggest private equity firms, according to an article from the Wall Street Journal online. This is a steep drop from a UK tally that shows women represent nearly half of that country’s overall financial services sector. The data, from provider Pequin, showed […]

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Wall Street Sage Sees Opportunities for Private Equity

August 17, 2009

Wall Street veteran Byron Wien was recently hired by private equity firm Blackstone Group as a senior strategist, reporting directly to Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman and COO Tony James. Wien was formerly senior strategist at the giant hedge fund Pequot Capital Management, and before that, at Morgan Stanley. He’s well-known for publishing his annual forecast […]

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Private Equity Jobs – Investor Relations

August 10, 2009

In a private equity firm, investor relations involves communicating the firm’s strengths to existing limited partners investors and potential investors. The goal is to build investor trust in the firm’s management team to keep existing investors relaxed and to support future fundraising efforts. Thus, an investor relations professional will foster relationships with existing investors through […]

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Private Equity Jobs – Marketing

August 3, 2009

The marketing role within a private equity firm is a bit more constrained than other financial institutions such as investment banks or mutual fund companies. For one, private equity investors must be accredited investors, meaning they must meet certain thresholds for income ($200,000+ per year or net worth of $1 million or more), or be […]

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A Brief History of Private Equity

July 27, 2009

Private equity investing can be traced back to the industrial revolution when merchant banks in Europe and later, the U.S., financed industrial projects and the building of the Transcontinental Railroad. When J. Pierpont Morgan bought Andrew Carnegie’s American Steel Company in 1901, it marked one of the earliest known major corporate buyouts. J.P. Morgan would […]

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Private Equity Job Culture

July 20, 2009

The top private equity firms tend to have what Bain & Company calls a “performance culture,” meaning managers and employees are determined to do everything possible to increase the value of the companies in which they invest. Nothing is allowed to get in the way of making their portfolio companies more profitable and valuable. Thus, […]

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Tools to Help Your Private Equity Job Search

July 13, 2009

ONLINE RESOURCES Reuters Buyouts A source of news, data, analysis and interpretation of trends in the private equity industry. Delivered to their subscribers bi-monthly, every issue has reports on new funds and fund closes, deals, exits, general partners, limited partners, deal makers, intermediaries and more. They also publish Private Equity Week, which provides weekly coverage […]

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Networking for a Private Equity or Venture Capital Job

June 29, 2009

No matter where you are in the private equity world – just starting out, mid-level or in a senior position – networking is critical to your success. So much of the work is highly personal; it’s who you know that counts, whether it’s finding potential investors or uncovering the next investment opportunity. So it should […]

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