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Business of Private Credit: Coming Home
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August 12, 2026 
The Pulse of Private Equity - 9/1/2014
PE Firms Pumping out the Cash U.S. PE firms distributed about $98 billion more back to investors than they called…
The Pulse of Private Equity - 8/18/2014
Secondary Buyouts – An Obvious Solution The above graph suggests that 2014 is set to decline in terms of secondary…
The Pulse of Private Equity - 8/11/2014
More but Less More The private equity industry during the first half of 2014 has acquired 2.1 companies for every…
The Pulse of Private Equity - 8/4/2014
The Fundraising Trail is OPEN The private equity fundraising trail has been wide open of late, with the last four…
The Pulse of Private Equity - 7/28/2014
Not that long ago, it would seem strange to see news of a private equity firm buying a venture-backed company;…
The Pulse of Private Equity - 7/21/2014
Despite all the talk of a “playground” in Europe for private equity buyers, we aren’t seeing the kinds of deal…
The Pulse of Private Equity - 7/14/2014
Secondary Buyout Activity Secondary buyout activity seems to be declining somewhat thus far in 2014, with only 230 recorded in…
The Pulse of Private Equity - 7/7/2014
We have been pointing out the growing increase in Add-on activity for years, but it only continues to go up…
The Pulse of Private Equity - 6/30/2014
With a total of 483 U.S. deals being completed in the second quarter, private equity deal activity notched a decline…
The Pulse of Private Equity - 6/23/2014
Over the last several years the biggest opportunity for PE firms was in solid companies that were struggling with generating…
THE PULSE OF PRIVATE EQUITY
No Curve in the Path Anytime Soon Once each quarter we pause to pull together survey and transaction data to…
THE PULSE OF PRIVATE EQUITY
Have PE Firms Learned a Mega Buyout Lesson? Energy Future Holdings’ bankruptcy filing last month put to rest another chapter…
THE PULSE OF PRIVATE EQUITY
Private equity is very much a global beast. As such, when thinking about deal activity trends, it is increasingly important…
THE PULSE OF PRIVATE EQUITY
Last week we discussed the increase in valuations seen over the last 12 to 18 months in the middle-middle market,…
THE PULSE OF PRIVATE EQUITY
At ACG Intergrowth last week I spent a fair amount of time talking with private equity deal guys (and one…
The Pulse of Private Equity
While much of the publicity surrounding private equity centers on mega-deals, the middle market actually accounts for more than 70%…