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Reverse Brain Drain Could Lead to a Private Equity Boom Overseas

December 18, 2008

U.S. immigration policies and the financial crisis are pushing many of the best-educated and successful minds in finance back to their home countries of India and China, reports the Globe and Mail. A new large-scale study of 1,200 Indian and Chinese returnees that’s due out next month shows the majority of those returning home have […]

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Getting an Edge in the Private Equity Job Market

December 8, 2008

The financial job market has shifted significantly over the past few months. When we are asked by candidates how to gain a competitive edge in this fast-moving environment, we often suggest brushing up on your financial modeling and valuation skills through training at The Investment Banking Institute (IBI). Over the past seven years, IBI has […]

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Wiley Reveals How to Get a Job in Private Equity

December 4, 2008

Looking for a leg up on your private equity job search? You might want to check out “Getting a Job in Private Equity: Behind the Scenes Insight into How Private Equity Funds Hire” published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd. Marketwatch.com reports that it’s an insider’s look at how to navigate the private equity hiring […]

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Private Equity Leaders Foresee Economic Recovery

November 27, 2008

Maybe it’s finally time to start seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. In fact, more than half of private equity leaders surveyed recently by Celerant Consulting felt that an economic recovery is no more than 18 months away. In a survey of more than 220 senior executives across Europe and the United […]

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Getting a Job in Private Equity

November 24, 2008

Baruch College students received some timely advice from two of the college’s more famous and successful grads recently. During the school’s Executives on Campus Program, 1962 Baruch College graduates Harvey Mallement and Harvey Wertheim, certified public accountants who teamed up to co-found Harvest Partners in 1981, offered their suggestions on how to get into the […]

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One Place Where Private Equity Jobs Are In Demand

November 20, 2008

FT.com, The Financial Times online edition, reports that banks are hiring private equity executives to beef up the teams that manage failing businesses, especially as they begin to take control of more of them during the current economic downturn. Banks need to find people for their “work-out” teams — executives who know how to actively […]

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Private Equity Job Compensation Rises in 2008

November 10, 2008

Newspapers may be filled with reports of layoffs and job cuts but there’s one sector of the financial services industry that seems to be riding out the storm better than others. Glocap Search and Thomson Reuters report that compensation for executives at U.S. private equity firms has actually risen this year, across almost all categories […]

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Private Equity Jobs in a Post Meltdown World

October 23, 2008

Jack Perkowski, author of Managing the Dragon, and one of the leading experts on doing business in China, offered a snapshot of what’s ahead for private equity investing around the world on his website recently. Perkowski has just returned from the SuperReturn Middle East 2008 Conference in Dubai, an elite gathering of 500 private equity […]

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Private Equity Can Help Solve Crisis

October 16, 2008

The best practices of private equity, such as focusing on shareholder value, improving companies and balancing risks and rewards, can be part of the solution to the current global liquidity crisis, says a partner in the private equity giant Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. Perry Golkin was the keynote speaker at the Global Private Equity […]

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Hiring Continues on the PE Front

October 8, 2008

Private equity firm Claret Capital has beefed up its new PE fund teams in Dublin and New York by hiring two executives from JPMorgan Chase. Dermot Hanley is joining Claret from JPMorgan Chase in Toronto, where he was executive director in mid-corporate investment banking. Yuki Narula joins Claret from JPMorgan’s New York office, where he […]

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