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The private equity industry is starting to look like a spent forceToo much money, too few targets. Is the golden child of the 1980s starting to look long in the tooth?

What the Big Mergers of 2017 Tell Us About 2018Implications for entertainment, health, transportation, and more.

15 of the Best Mergers & Acquisitions of 2017

Anil Ambani: Indian billionaire exits mobile business amid price war with his brotherReliance Communications plans to sell assets worth over $6 billion to pay off most of its debts.

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A U.S. Private Equity Firm Has Officially Delisted for the First Time EverJapan’s SoftBank Group Corp. has completed its $3.3 billion cash deal for Fortress Investment Group LLC, marking the first time a publicly traded U.S. private equity firm has delisted.

How CyberArk Became Israel's Best Venture Capital InvestmentThe odds against a successful venture investment are long indeed -- I have estimated that about one in 5 million unfunded startups end up worth at least $1 billion. This Israeli investor beat those long odds to realize the highest investment returns of any Israeli VC.

Private Equity Power Boost: Why Private Equity-Owned Franchises ThriveThe best franchise and private equity firm arrangements are the ones in which you know your company has something to add to the relationship.

2017 was a great year to be richIt's never a bad year to be rich, exactly. But 2017 turned out to be a particularly good one. Rich people are doing so well these days that their spending on luxury goods isn't even keeping up. Luxury spending rose 5% globally in 2017, the management consulting firm Bain & Company found. But that is a fraction of the 40% rise in net worth that people in America's top-tenth of income earners saw between 2013 and 2016, according to the Federal Reserve.

In 2018, management consultancies will have their sights set on media - DigidayFor management consultancies trying to be agencies, 2018 is the year of proving they can.

Billionaire David Einhorn says the key to investing success is ‘critical thinking’ David Einhorn shared the most important factor for his investing success during a rare talk at the Oxford Union last month.

How SoftBank changed the venture capital game in 2017For all the turbulent developments in the tech world this year, the impact of SoftBank’s massive investment fund may loom largest over the startup world in years to come. Back in May, SoftBan…

Billionaire Bob Parsons Is Giving Employees $1.3 Million In Bonuses, Thanks To GOP Tax BillGoDaddy founder Bob Parsons is one of the first billionaires to publicly herald the tax bill by announcing bonuses for his employees.

Venture capital deals of the weekInsurance giant Allianz (OTCQX:AZSEY) invested $96.6M in BIMA, a micro-insurer that sells insurance through mobile phones in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.The investment came from the digital invest

Learn lessons from the private equity classBy Praveen Malhotra Given the momentum of change, strategic planning horizons have become significantly shorter. The primary purpose of a business is value creation. The pursuit of this takes up innumerable hours in boardrooms around...

APS tomatoes to build new glass with private equity money

Four Things To Keep In Mind When Navigating A Merger Or AcquisitionMergers and acquisitions can be tricky to navigate. Here are three lessons I learned during BodeTree's first business acquisition.

A Chinese billionaire is now one of the biggest seed investors in Silicon ValleyShan Xiangshuang's Hone Capital model may prove to be a way for more big-money funds to invest directly in startups.

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Why One Private-Equity Pioneer Is So Fed Up With The Industry, He’s Ready To Quit“Greed is winning,” Leo Hindery of InterMedia Partners explains on the latest episode of “The Bottom Line.”

How to break into venture capitalVC is the cool career choice for MBA graduates, but getting hired is difficult

Venture Capital Shop Hyperplane Backs Data StartupWith a scarcity of advanced computing talent for asset managers, a Boston VC outfit is betting that machines can help turn anybody into a quant.

Junior bankers caution against moving to private equityHoping to move out of banking and into private equity? It may not be such a good idea.

Approaches to Philanthropy: Giving While Living, Donor Intent, and AnonymityCrossposted from Philanthropy Daily — article dated December 8, 2017 One problem historians have in writing about donor intent is that many donors do a very poor job in expressing their ideas. James Buchanan Duke, as far as I know,…

Private equity opportunities are on the rise in high-net-worth investor sectorAccess to private plays for accredited investors has increased, and some advisors use this as a point of differentiation for their practice.

CVS to Buy Aetna for $69 Billion in a Deal That May Reshape the Health IndustryThe deal would combine CVS’s pharmacy and clinic business with a giant insurance company. The combination could lead to lower prices — or fewer choices — for consumers.

3 reasons the trillion-dollar M&A market will keep exploding in 2018The investment-banking team at Robert W. Baird provides three reasons that already-robust mergers-and-acquisitions activity will continue to grow in 2018.

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Private equity exit the reason behind Future Supply Chain IPO: Kishore BiyaniThe upcoming IPO of Future Supply Chain Solutions, which is expected the garner over Rs700 crore, is primarily to give an exit to private equity firm Griffin Partners

Merger and Acquisition: Raft of proposals awaiting CCI’s nodA number of companies, such as Alibaba Singapore, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and IndusInd Bank, have sought clearances from the Competition Commission Of India (CCI) this month for their respective merger and acquisition proposals.

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30 Under 30 Venture Capital 2018: Meet The Young Investors Finding The Next Great Tech CompaniesThese young investors of the 30 Under 30 Venture Capital are helping to disrupt tech industry stereotypes, one savvy deal at a time.

These are the private equity funds hiring junior investment bankers nowInvestment banks are just wrapping up their 2018 graduate recruitment programmes, but private equity firms rarely follow a strict schedule when it comes to hiring juniors. Buy-side firms without grad

Zuckerberg got early business advice from a Russian billionaire with Kremlin tiesThe "Paradise Papers" reveal how Kremlin money backed Yuri Milner's investments in Facebook and Twitter.

Is Snap A Buy...For Private Equity?If you can get investors to stop thinking critically about your IPO, you can sell them anything. Having lost 57% of its value, that's why Snap is still worth $15.5 billion. That seems high.

No venture capital please, we're British: Why a pair of storage startups went it aloneObject Matrix and Storage Made Easy succeeded

Bain, Carlyle in race to buy Sutures India for $425 millionApart from Bain Capital and Carlyle Group, Partners Group AG and Advent International have also shown interest in buying Sutures India in deal that values the firm at $500 million

The pioneers of Indian angel investing are now getting into the venture capital gameLike always, their focus will be on early-stage startups.

UPDATE 1-Private equity firm Permira to buy Duff & Phelps for $1.75 bln(Adds background, financial and legal...

The U.S. government is investing about $200 million in overseas venture capital fundsOPIC’s budget comes from Congress, but the money it makes goes back to the U.S. Treasury.

Are The Private Equity Barbarians At The Gates Of Madison Avenue?The deterioration of the agency sector does not come amid an economic slowdown. The reason being: big packaged goods advertisers are cutting down on ad spending. These companies are being squeezed between the Amazon juggernaut.

Private Equity’s Biggest Backers Are Tired of the FeesBack in the days when private equity giants were young, management fees went to keeping the lights on. Nowadays they yield a geyser of profit.

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Where venture capital has peaked“Peak startup” is a phrase that no doubt strikes terror in the hearts of entrepreneurs and startup investors alike. But saying “peak startup” is not..

Global Merger and Acquisition Terms and Agreements in Pharma, Biotech and Diagnostics 2010-2017LONDON, Oct. 26, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Download the full report: https://www.reportbuyer.com/product/3876507<br /><br /><br /><br />Fully...

Private Equity Jobs of the Week: Edgemont Capital Partners, KPMG, KeyBanc are hiring - PE HubThis week's opportunities include senior roles with KPMG and Alvarez & Marsal, as well as associate jobs at Emergence Capital and Edgemont Capital Partners.

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British Private Equity Awards 2017: winners announced! | Unquote Congratulations to the winners of this year's unquote” British Private Equity Awards, held last night in London. ,Industry,People ,unquote” British Private Equity Awards

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Venture capital has hit an all-time high in India—and a quarter of it came from one investorSoftBank has regained its mojo.

African Venture Capital Firm Leads $40M Series C Investment In AndelaMeet African venture capitalist Pule Taukobong whose firm, CRE Venture Capital just led a $40 million series c investment in Andela

Bain Capital leads the charge as Japan's private equity dealmaking picks upBain Capital is planning on further ramping up its dealmaking in Japan after it came out on top in the recent battle to purchase Toshiba's semiconductors arm and as it bids to buy out Japan's third-largest advertising agency, Asatsu-DK (ADK).

Private equity firms make hay while sun shines on Dalal StreetOf the Rs 40,000 crore raised since April 2017, Rs 32,000 crore went towards giving a partial or full exit to PEs and in some cases to promoters.

Graze's private equity owners ready to chomp down on £300m saleThe owners of healthy snack box delivery company Graze are preparing to get their teeth into a £300m sale, according to reports.

In defense of private equityThe image of private equity as a parasitic form of business completely misses the point, writes VC Joe Lonsdale.

Venture capital speak – what they say and what they meanA run through on common terms founders must acquaint with before raking it in – they might sound Latin (sure, some even are) but they can be understood

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How Wealthy Families Are Winning DealsThe most sophisticated are turning into investing giants.

The new titans of Wall Street have their eyes on your savingsPrivate equity firms are crushing it — and now they want to entice more everyday customers, not just wealthy investors.

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