The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

And what was interesting was the first leveraged buyout of a public company happened when I was in graduate school. KLINSKY: In 1979, it was the first leveraged buyout of a public company. We had sold the family business, maybe buy another family business one day through a leveraged buyout. RITHOLTZ: Sure.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

annual returns, net of fees, and that’s from 1987 to the mid 2010s. We returned a lot of capital. I think most importantly, our clients appreciated the return of capital. There would’ve been no bid. Ritholtz ] 00:03:30 Yeah, Sandberg is a fascinating guy. Just an incredible run. And it did.

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Private Equity Insights

MARCH 4, 2025

While fee income from private equity is expected to decline modestly in 2025, Carlyles latest US buyout funds posted strong returns of 15% and 21% respectively. High interest rates have tempered large leveraged buyouts, but Wise emphasized Carlyle’s willingness to execute major deals in the current environment.

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 30, 2023

That’s roughly triple the deal tallies of buyout firms like Apollo Global Management Inc., has unveiled just one major public-company takeover bid this year. Gone are the days of an auction with 45 bids, two pre-empts and—I’d say—some aggressive dealmaking,” Ranjan said in a Bloomberg Television interview Wednesday.

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Pension Pulse

MARCH 3, 2025

The third public investments group is the global multi asset strategies group whose activities include an absolute return quant approach which runs very efficiently. The fundamentals we like in real estate and infrastructure are the long-term nature predictable returns, low risk, and the return that comes in the form of cash.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 7, 2025

One of the researchers there, Nick Bloom, has done some of the most definitive research on flexible working and how it impacts productivity retention and how it’s very much here to stay or should be very much flies in the face of how some Wall Street banks think about the return to work. Leverage buyouts requires leverage.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

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 you know, you guys make your bids.

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