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- Brinksmanship at Fortress Investment Group
- Paul Kedrosky submits: Riveting brinksmanship going on at 11th hour as Fortress Investment Group FIG works frantically to refinance $1.7-billion in Intrawest debt, which expires tomorrow. Recall that Intrawest, the owner of the Whistler ski resort -- which will host the 2010 Winter Olympics -- was purchased by Fortress...
- External links 2008-10-22
- AIG Bailout Redux: The Perils of Open-Ended Liability
- Paul Kedrosky submits: This should come as no surprise given that supposed insurer [[AIG]] has drawn down more than $80 billion of its $122 billion facility, but the company is apparently in talks with the U.S. government to be bailed out of its bailout. It wants to convert a...
- External links 2008-11-07
- Is Buffett Really Losing His Touch?
- Paul Kedrosky submits: Various people are wandering about saying that investor Warren Buffett has lost his touch. The gist of the argument: A combination of style drift (derivatives?!), ill-timed investments, and his "long term" refrain on declining positions demonstrate that he is, at the very least, having a hard...
- External links 2008-11-12
- 411 Needs 911: The Yellow Pages Buyout Bust
- Paul Kedrosky submits: Was the 2002 yellow pages buyout boom the most awesomely mistimed private equity move ever? Okay, that’s saying a lot, but still: Buying such services for their ad revenue just as the yellow pages business blew up in the face of search (read: Google) ubiquity has...
- External links 2008-11-17
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- Angels Go Where VCs Fear To Tread
- Paul Kedrosky got a lot of attention yesterday for a paper he wrote showing that venture funds are not providing investors with enough returns and suggesting that the venture capital industry should essentially right-size itself by half. The sector must shrink its way back to health if venture capital...
- Blog posts 2009-06-11
- What Is Private Equity?
- The term private equity encompasses a range of techniques used to finance commercial ventures in ways that do not involve the use of publicly tradable assets such as corporate stock or bonds. Typical forms of private equity include venture capital, growth and mezzanine capital, angel investing, and private equity funds....
- Articles 2007-03-05
- Jeremy Siegel: More Right than Wrong
- Greg Feirman submits: In Wednesday's WSJ, Wharton Professor Jeremy Siegel wrote an Op-Ed, “The S&P Gets Its Earnings Wrong” (subscription required - e-mail me for a link), arguing that the way S&P calculates earnings is wrong and therefore stocks are much cheaper than most believe. It has generated...
- External links 2009-02-27
- Demand Media Takes Minority Stake in Coveritlive; Will Use it With Pluck
- Demand Media, the Santa Monica-based online media company, is doing its first strategic investment: it is taking a minority stake in Coveritlive, the live blogging/event coverage tools firm. The tools from Coveritlive will be integrated within Pluck, Demand’s social media enterprise tools company and Demand will market, resell and...
- External links 2009-08-18
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