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Private equity's blue light special
Dan Primack 2010-09-10 01:32BC Partners is offering prospective investors a sweet deal. So why might it backfire?British buyout firm BC Partners is raising €6 billion for its new...
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Private equity is a man's world... seriously
Dan Primack 2011-02-11 06:56Are you a woman who wants to succeed in private equity? Here's some free advice: Learn about sports. And don't get pregnant. In fact, it might be best...
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The 5 best and 5 worst private equity funds
Dan Primack 2010-09-21 01:00The California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) has the nation's largest private equity portfolio, and recently updated fund-by-fund perfo...
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Why private equity is in a deep freeze
财富中文网 2009-07-29 05:20Buyout firms with huge stockpiles of cash aren't making new deals. The reason? They're too focused on trying to manage the companies they've already g...
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5 private equity story-lines for 2011
Dan Primack 2010-12-31 01:282010 was a comeback year for private equity. Deal volume nearly doubled, portfolio values were boosted by public market comps (thanks, FAS 157!) and P...
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One more reason for Buffett to hate private equity
Dan Primack 2010-10-19 01:02Warren Buffett recently said that Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA) hasn't "bought a single company from an LBO operator," because such sellers only focus on ...
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A harsh light on Apple's supply chain
Philip Elmer-DeWitt 2011-02-11 02:22Mike Daisey's "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs" is a cry for labor reform in ChinaPhoto courtesy of Cult of MacIt's not going to be as easy as...
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The best private equity deal to ever fall apart
D.M. Levine 2010-05-27 01:27When news started to trickle out two weeks ago that a consortium of private equity firms were in talks to buy up a Fortune 500 provider of real estate...
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Pandora by the dashboard light
Betsy Feldman and Benjamin Snyder 2010-08-28 01:52Radio – the word is likelier to conjure up FDR's fireside chats than the cutting edge of the Web, but the original broadcast warhorse has survived the...
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Why Dell won't go private
Shelley DuBois 2010-11-26 01:59The company needs to transform, but here's why going private doesn't make sense.Rumors of Dell going private really took off back in June when, at the...