«Everybody talks about
the private equity bubble — remove it from your lexicon,» said Tobias Levkovich at the Reuters Investment Outlook Summit in New York.
They were so enamored with Holmes, so swept up in the unicorn feeding frenzy of
the private equity bubble, that they failed to conduct basic due diligence.
Not exact matches
That aspect of him
bubbled into public view with Compuware, the Detroit - based business software maker that eventually sold to
private equity firm Thoma Bravo for $ 2.4 billion in 2014 as a result of Elliott's campaign.
If anything should be clear from the
bubbles of recent years, the greatest risks are not when prices are depressed, the economy is weak, and investors are frightened, but rather when prices are elevated and an unendingly positive outlook for technology, or housing, or global growth, or
private equity, or emerging markets, or commodities seems all but certain.
The eagerness of investors to chase prevailing trends, and their unwillingness to concern themselves with predictable longer - term risks, drove a successive series of speculative advances and crashes during the past decade - the dot - com
bubble, the tech
bubble, the mortgage
bubble, the
private -
equity bubble, and the commodities
bubble.
The SF / Bay Area market was driven by big foreign money laundering and a massive
private equity tech
bubble in Palo Alto.
Private equity is not a
bubble today; history may judge it to be a mania.
NEW YORK (Reuters)- The heavy pace of
private equity deals being brokered on Wall Street is not a
bubble being driven by irrational investors, but rather the result of an arbitrage opportunity in the market, said Citigroup's chief U.S.
equity strategist.
alternative assets, Argo Group, asset managers, bankruptcy, BDCs, business development companies, Colony Financial, de-leveraging, distressed assets, distressed consumers, distressed investing, Fortress Investment Group, income / dividend
bubble, JZ Capital Partners, litigation funding,
private equity funds