baselinescenario.com - 11/16/2008
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What seems like years ago, Simon and I wrote an op-ed in which we compared the initial proposal that became TARP to a bad hedge fund - a fund whose purpose was to overpay for illiquid securities and thereby shore up banks. Now that the original plan is dead , I think we can say that TARP has ...
A Private Equity Pick-Up?
bespokeinvest.typepad.com 5/6/2009 — PowerShares has an ETF (ticker: PSP) that tracks private equity companies that are publicly traded. It's not news to anyone that private equity has been hit extremely hard throughout the financial crisis, and from its peak to trough over the last two ...
A Good Private Equity Blog
financialrounds.blogspot.com 6/27/2009 — Thanks to Analyst Forum (one of my regular stops), I just came across a pretty good blog on Private Equity called The Private Equiteer . It has a lot of posts that go through the basics of the private equity world ( here's a list of many of them). ...
Optimism About Private Equity? One Study Says It’s Out There
dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com 12/5/2008 — Despite the problems plaguing the private equity industry these days, a chunk of institutional investors believe that their industry will continue to throw money into buyout funds.
That’s one of the results of a study conducted by Prequin, an ...
It’s Too Early for Private Equity To Be “Back”
pehub.com 8/11/2009 — Just because private equity is seeing some renewed enthusiasm doesn’t mean its “back.” Call me a pessimist, but remember that near-half a trillion dollars in corporate debt? It’s due in three years and it hasn’t gone anywhere. None of the indicators ...
Super Return: What Private Equity Is Afraid Of
dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com 2/7/2009 — What keeps a private equity baron up at night?
Well, the buyout lords have already had some time to adjust to the lack of loans for leveraged buyouts. And the stalling economy. And the lackluster returns. Now, they are focusing on relationships, and ...
Why Fiscal Stimulus Is Not Enough
baselinescenario.com 1/13/2009 — Ben Bernanke gave a speech today that will be discussed for, well, at least a few days, outlining the Federal Reserve’s response to the financial crisis. We will probably devote a couple of posts to it (Simon already mentioned it below .)
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Private Equity Firms Expected to Show 20-30% Losses for 2008
nakedcapitalism.com 1/7/2009 — OK, you gotta help me. Private equity is basically levered equity. Yes, the claim to add value in various ways, but many academic studies question that theory. The big source of profits is leverage and financial engineering. Neither of those ...
Bad Bank? Bad Idea
tbm.thebigmoney.com 2/4/2009 — While President Obama's proposal to enact a massive fiscal stimulus package is working its way relatively quickly through Congress, a government plan to get the nation's banks back on their feet seems to have stalled. Some experts believe that the ...
What do Private Equity Firms do all Day?
businessweek.com 7/26/2009 — What are people at private equity firms doing all day now that so few deals getting done? Suduko? Facebook?
According to a white paper by auditors Grant Thornton and the Association for Corporate growth, a private equity industry group, people at ...
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