Private Equity
Philip Godfrey, a partner at San Francisco-based fund of funds manager Bay Hills Capital, talks in this video about his firm’s exclusive focus on small to mid-market buyout funds with less than $1 billion under management. The firm, he says favors focused portfolios, primarily in North America, of firms investing in companies with less than $250 million in enterprise value
1 min read · 14 March 2013
1 min read · 11 March 2013
2 min read · 11 March 2013
1 min read · 11 March 2013
Domestic buyout and mezzanine firms have secured about $19 billion in commitments so far this year. The latest roundup includes two closing above $1 billion.
1 min read · 11 March 2013
What is the right hurdle for private equity firms before they receive carry?
1 min read · 08 March 2013
Karen Rode, a partner at Hewitt EnnisKnupp, talks in this video about her firm, a private equity team and investment consultant within the larger consulting firm AON plc, an insurer and risk management expert. Within the private equity group, the firm has been investing $1 billion a year on average for the past five years, either making commitments or advising clients, to strategies including infrastructure, standard buyouts, venture, mezzanine and debt strategies.
1 min read · 08 March 2013
The Private Equity Growth Capital Council released a whiteboard video in February to defend the treatment of carried interest at the capital gains rate.
1 min read · 01 March 2013
Bill Leavitt, the president and chief investment officer of Leavitt Capital Management, talks in this video about the Northbrook, Ill.-based advisory firm’s opportunistic approach to investing strategies. In buyout funds, the firm favors highly specialized niches such as energy, Latin American agriculture, logistics and water-related investments.
1 min read · 28 February 2013
Jack Nicklaus once described the job of a PGA caddy this way: “Show up, keep up and shut up.”
6 min read · 25 February 2013
