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PIPE Investments in Private Equity: Pouring Money Down the PIPE

The Private Equiteer

PIPEs are private investments made in public companies, with no shares offered on the open market. The recent SPAC boom saw many of these deals making headlines but PIPEs have been a mainstay in private equity for years. PIPEs also simplify the exit strategy for private equity investors.

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IMCO's CEO Bert Clark Reflects on the Canadian Model and More

Pension Pulse

If they could, oil would not have reached $147 in 2008—a level is has never subsequently reached and the examples I referred to earlier—involving the Nikkei and Nasdaq—wouldn’t have occurred. Our strategy is to try to keep exposures to any asset class or market segment at a size that won’t lead to regret if something goes wrong.