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Friday Letter Brakes squealingInvestors are increasingly concerned. Managers may have curtailed any investment excesses as credit markets have closed, but are they in denial still as capital market pain turns to economic reality?
- Friday Letter How to buy a bank
Big buyout firms have a lot of money but are struggling to put it all to work. US banks need a lot of money and are struggling generally. This would equal a trend if it weren’t for a pesky Federal Reserve regulation.
- Friday Letter See you in Sao Paulo
A who’s who of private equity GPs have been going to Brazil this year – many for the first time. The reason? To take part in the market’s ‘energia fantástica’, as evidenced this week by the $1.2bn final close on Gavea Investimentos’ third fund.
- Friday Letter Cleaning up the carnage
Wall Street’s institutional meltdown gives private equity players the opportunity to provide aid in more ways than one.
- Friday Letter Job cuts and ramp-ups
The news flow this week confirmed that private equity is by no means an island unaffected by the global financial crisis. Parts of it are under water, but elsewhere industry professionals are getting excited by the opportunities this crisis will produce.
- 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: Looking past the gloom
Private equity in the Middle East and North Africa is seeing ways to a lucrative future.
- Friday Letter: Ban the politicians
The way to avoid any future ‘pay-to-play’ scandals is not to ban placement agents, as some public officials have called for, but rather to ban the politicians themselves from the investment process.
- Friday Letter The trouble with New York
Carlyle’s $20m settlement with New York’s attorney general prevents the potential for litigation against the firm and preserves its relationship with a major LP. But there are some troubling implications for the private placement industry.
- Friday Letter: Going it alone
LPs shifting away from fund commitments and towards direct investments could be biting off more than they can chew.