Can Private Equity Turn the Housing Market Around?

February 15, 2012

In an almost bizarre “only in Washington politics” twist, the Obama administration is asking the very industry it has been vilifying over the last three years to help rescue the beleaguered housing market by taking hundreds of thousands government owned foreclosed homes off of its hands. Specifically, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are calling on […]

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Carried Interest to be 2012 Political Football

February 7, 2012

You had to see it coming. The moment Mitt Romney released his tax returns the left and media focused immediately like a laser on the fact that, on more than $20 million of earnings in 2011, his effective tax rate was not much more than 15.4%.  So, after being subdued by three failed attempts in […]

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Private Equity Pay: Expectations and Outcomes Reaching Parity

January 29, 2012

Along with the rest of the investment world, the private equity industry experienced its share of ups and downs in 2011. So, it is not so remarkable that the attitudes, expectations and actual results expressed by firms and employees in the 2012 Private Equity Pay Report very closely reflects that. As a whole, industry players […]

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Harvard Business School Talent Tilting Towards Private Equity

January 22, 2012

The relative flatness of private equity activity over the past couple of years has done little to discourage the crème-de-la-crème of Harvard MBAs from snatching up a record number of job offers from PE firms over the last year. According to the latest job survey from the Harvard Business School, nearly 15% took their MBA […]

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With Romney in, Private Equity Can’t Avoid Wrath of Politics

January 15, 2012

Of course we saw it coming way back in October as did all of the political junkies. We knew that the presidential campaign would eventually put Mitt Romney and private equity under the magnifying glass making them a central target of the “class warriors.”  It was all teed up for President Obama for when he […]

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Private Equity Firms Getting Back to Basics for Turnaround Year

January 8, 2012

Looking ahead to 2102, if there’s just one thing we can say with any degree of certainty is that it’s no longer our father’s private equity industry anymore. It has taken three years since the bottom fell out for the PE industry to come to terms with its own mortality. Not that it’s about to […]

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Will Private Equity Earnings Optimism Lead the Turnaround?

December 29, 2011

The report released by PrivateEquityCompensation.com indicating that overall compensation in the private equity industry continues to trend upward, comes amidst a muddled backdrop of steady fundraising activity and decreasing exit and merger activity. Clearly, the industry is still in full recovery mode following the financial crisis of a few years ago, and a shakeout continues […]

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Private Equity Compensation Report for 2012 Released

December 18, 2011

A report released by http://privateequitycompensation.com/ indicates the private equity and venture capital markets are continuing to enjoy increases in compensation and that the trend that will extend into 2012. 2011 brought with it plenty of fund raising activity and, it was clear from the report, the success of that activity was all over the board. The […]

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Is Private Equity Experience is Just What the Country Needs?

December 17, 2011

A few months back we speculated, along with the rest of the private equity world, on the effect that a Mitt Romney presidential campaign would have on an industry that is already under siege from the 99% and the tax-hikers in Congress. Things were actually going pretty well, as the media pretty much ignored Romney’s […]

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Blackstone-Bain Has Inside Track on Yahoo Deal

December 10, 2011

Blackstone Group and Bain Capital appear to be leading the Yahoo sweepstakes as more details of their partnership with China’s Alibaba Group and Japan’s Softbank Corp become known.  Behind Alibaba’s incessant quest to take back its 40% stake from Yahoo, Blackstone and Bain would arrange financing for a whole bid that would value the company […]

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