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Mid-Market Dealmaking Spurs Private Equity Hiring

November 16, 2009

With the credit crunch easing and markets stabilizing, private equity firms are returning to dealmaking, particularly in the mid- and lower mid-market. The Deal.com reports that lower and mid-market deals accounted for 70% of the 407 transactions by buyout funds so far in 2009, citing data from PitchBook. Financing for new deals is flowing again […]

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Helping Woman and Minorities Find Private Equity Jobs

November 2, 2009

Carlyle Group, the giant global private equity firm with over $86 billion of assets under management, is taking steps to attract more women and minorities into the private equity industry. The firm has teamed up with The Robert Toigo Foundation to create an MBA fellowship program which includes time working at Carlyle, and experience with […]

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A Private Equity Giant Every Job Seeker Should Study

October 19, 2009

This week marked the sudden passing of Bruce Wasserstein, one of the world’s most successful private equity investors and richest men. Wasserstein, 61, died of heart-related complications in a New York Hospital. Wasserstein worked on deals valued at more than $250 billion during his 32-year career in finance. His hardball tactics were immortalized in the […]

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Carlyle Head Sees Private Equity Getting Stronger

October 5, 2009

David Rubenstein, co-founder of the Carlyle Group, expects the private equity industry to come roaring back even stronger than it was when we finally pull out of this recession. And that could be good news for private equity job seekers. Speaking with Bloomberg Television, Rubenstein admitted that Carlyle, the world’s second largest private equity firm, […]

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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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