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Lead Left Interview - Josh Lerner

This week we chat 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 of the…

The Pulse of Private Equity - 11/30/2015

Could PE Return Multiples Begin to Stagnate? Driven by the seller’s market over the past few years, recent private equity fund vintages have seen their return multiples improve considerably. Distributions back to limited partners have risen to staggering levels, with 2014 seeing no less than $467.8 billion alone…. Subscribe to Read MoreAlready a member? Log in here...

Markit Recap – 11/23/2015

Military tension with Turkey has sent Russia’s CDS spread wider this morning but Russia’s apparent rapprochement with the west has seen investors treat Russian bonds in a much brighter light. After spending the first three months of the year in purgatory due to the continuing fighting in East… Subscribe to Read MoreAlready a member? Log

Report from the Front

Valentine’s Day is still months away, but for early planners we pass along the following: The world’s second largest diamond was discovered in a mine in Botswana last week. Weighing in at 1,111 carats, the giant gem is the size of a tennis ball. One expert reported it had “the potential to be one very…