- Private equity has an image problem. What began a few months ago with questions about Mitt Romneys background as chief of Bain Capital has ballooned into a tidal wave of legislative, regulatory and media attention -- and much of it unflattering. (Huffington Post)
- In recent years, the private equity industry has escaped much of the regulatory scrutiny that has been directed toward hedge funds and Wall Street banks. But that appears to be changing. (New York Times)
- Feb. 7 (Bloomberg) -- The largest U.S. (Businessweek)
- Feb. 16 (Bloomberg) -- John Bogle, the Vanguard Group Inc. founder who popularized index investing, said lower tax rates for certain types of gains earned by private equity firms are "ridiculous. (Businessweek)
- NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stephen Schwarzman, the boss of the worlds largest private equity firm, made his fortune by being a financier who delivered outsized returns for investors from buying, restructuring and then selling companies. (Reuters India)
- When arguably the dumbest investors in the room (public pension funds) rally to the defense of high-risk, high-cost, thinly-regulated, opaque private equity fund managers that should tell you something. (Forbes)
- NEW YORK (AP) -- Investment manager Apollo Global Management LLC on Friday reported sharply lower fourth-quarter profit as it marked down the value of its private equity and capital markets investments. (Yahoo Finance)
- ----- For the periods ending Year To 1 3 5 10 15 20 September 30, 2011 Qtr. (msnbc.com)
- Quadrant Private Equity and APN News Media could strike a deal worth up to 300 million Australian dollars (US$322.6 million), a person familiar with the matter told Deal Journal Australia. (Wall Street Journal)
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Private equity
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