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Lead Left Interview - Josh Lerner (Part 2)

This week we continue our conversation with Josh Lerner, the Chair of the Entrepreneurship Unit and the Jacob H. Schiff Professor at Harvard Business School. He has recently been named one of the 100 most influential people in private equity over the past decade by Private Equity International magazine. He currently serves as Vice Chair…

The Pulse of Private Equity - 12/7/2015

Global PE Cash Flows for 2015 Already Strong In the first quarter of 2015, private equity firms worldwide have already distributed $168.2 billion back to their limited partners, while calling down $114.3 billion. Those two sums combined produce a net cash flow for 2015 of $53.9 billion already, no less than 32% of last year’s…

Markit Recap – 11/30/2015

Puerto Rico’s (PR) development bank successfully made a $354m debt payment this week, closely staving off defaulting on its GDB bonds. PR’s 8% 2035 GO bond saw its price climb 2.5pts to 75.00 (cash basis to par) according to Markit’s municipal bond pricing service. The jump marked a new two… Subscribe to Read MoreAlready a

Safe Landing

While most Americans were in the midst of Thanksgiving preparations last week, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was making space history. In the first successful test flight of a rocket with all reusable parts, the New Shepard booster landed four feet from where it had taken off on the plains of West Texas. Next step: human…