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Friday Letter: Building a brandAlmost 20 percent of Blackstone’s total assets lie in good will and other intangibles and that’s before the companies it owns are taken into account. Buyout firms are waking up to fresh ways to extract more value from the brands in their portfolios.
- Friday Letter: global reach
The UK’s Walker code should be firmly on the radar of all global buyout firms.
- Friday Letter: Doubling down
Buying up Citi’s loan portfolio is a bold move. The rewards are clear, but the risk is significant.
- Friday Letter: It's getting tougher out there
Non-traditional lenders are the only way to get big deals away, while the mid-market, long held up as evidence of the buyout model’s resilience, is looking trickier too. To make matters worse: vendors are battling with uncertainty.
- Friday Letter After all this pain, things will get better
The past 12 months have brought unprecedented turmoil to markets everywhere, and the private equity industry suffered profound ripple effects from many of the year’s most dramatic events.
- Friday Letter: Winning the battle for the banks
The $900m club deal for Florida’s BankUnited shows private equity firms are prevailing in their push to buy controlling stakes in US banks in need of recapitalisation.
- Friday Letter Well beyond buyouts
Oversimplifying the multipronged business models many private equity firms now employ risks wrongly evaluating their purposes and prospects.
- Friday letter changing colours
Fundamentals remain challenging, but the private equity industry is determined to turn a new leaf.
- Friday Letter 12 unusual months
PEO takes a look at some the year's top challenges to the industry, as well as some encouraging indicators.
- Friday Letter Carlyle’s quest to crack the China code
As Google made headlines this week for threatening to leave China, the Carlyle Group furthered its foothold in ‘the epicentre of the private equity world’ by partnering with the Beijing government for its second RMB fund.