This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 21, 2013

Ten years ago, I was an analyst for the General Motors pension fund, working on fund investments into leveraged buyout funds and venture capital deals. I literally wrote the investment memo for GMs investment into Accel IX, otherwise known as the "Facebook Fund." (I

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

It encompasses strategies such as venture capital, leveraged buyouts and investing directly in publicly-traded private equity firms. Leveraged Buyouts In contrast, there are leveraged buyouts (LBOs) that involve acquiring established companies with the aim of restructuring or improving their operations to enhance profitability.

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

It encompasses strategies such as venture capital, leveraged buyouts and investing directly in publicly-traded private equity firms. Leveraged Buyouts In contrast, there are leveraged buyouts (LBOs) that involve acquiring established companies with the aim of restructuring or improving their operations to enhance profitability.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

But there came to be, in certain situations, buyers that were bootstrap, buyers that were, we would call ’em today, they then leveraged buyout financiers. And the institutional investors often are thinking if you’re a big state pension fund, I want 10%, 20%. And now we call it the private equity industry.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

But because these are really good businesses, which got levered, they got leveraged through these leverage buyouts. Early nineties was the start of the modern high yield leverage buyout business done at scale. There’s leverage. But Barry, can I tell you, but go back, go back to one thought though.

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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. KLINSKY: Yeah.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 20, 2023

Pension funds, perhaps, maybe aren’t growing as much as they need them to. RITHOLTZ: Clearly, 401(k) is not a much faster growing part of the allocation landscape than either direct benefits or pensions, if anything, that side of the street is shrinking dramatically. And so, this is a ripe market for them.

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