There's a parody email circulating around Wall Street right now, in which dialogue from A Few Good Men is turned into Goldman Sachs fodder. Here's a snippet: You want the truth? You can’t handle the truth. Son, we live in a country with an investment gap. And that gap needs to be filled by men with money. Who’s gonna do it? You? You, Middle Class Consumer? Goldman Sachs has a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. So I decided to try my hand at something similar, with the scene in which Danny Kaffee (Tom Cruise) and Jack Ross (Kevin Bacon) discuss the possibility of Kaffee putting Col. Jessop on the stand. Standing in for Kaffee will be SEC chair Mary Shapiro, while Goldman counsel Gregory Palm gets the Ross treatment. Get it after the jump...
3 min read · 23 April 2010
Perhaps no private equity group was closer to the global financial crisis' epicenter than was AIG Investments (now rebranded as PineBridge Investments). The past 18 months have been a roller coaster for the institution, culminating in its announced sale to Hong Kong-based investor Pacific Century Group. All the while, it continued to make investments and never missed a capital call. Bob Thompson, head of alternatives for PineBridge Investments, comes to Buyouts West on April 15, to tell this story. In a pre-conference interview, he talks about buzz words he does and doesn’t like, the likelihood of PE shops merging with each other, and lessons learned as having been part of AIG over the last 18 months:
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