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Private Equity's Creative Wizardry Posing Systemic Risk?

Pension Pulse

We’re seeing a slow-grinding implosion of this titanic asset bubble that started in 2012,” says Dan Zwirn, CEO at Arena Investors. All this "financial engineering" is legal but it's raising eyebrows and some LPs are rightly worried that it will impact equity value as debt defaults soar.

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Transcript: William Cohan

The Big Picture

So, I graduated from business school in 1987 and went to GE Capital for two years, financing leveraged buyouts. I mean, you know, I probably shouldn’t have been doing it because I had been a journalist covering public schools and knew nothing about leveraged buyouts. And I actually started out of business school.

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