The Motley Fool

MARCH 17, 2024

Dividends can be a terrific source of passive income for your portfolio. The company typically supports start-ups that have raised funding from venture capital or private equity firms and are looking to augment the balance sheet with some debt. Hercules Capital: Dividend yield 10.5%

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

There are many different ways to add growth to your portfolio. A more passive strategy to augment your portfolio can be adding dividend stocks. While many companies pay dividends, business development companies (BDCs) represent a unique and potentially lower-risk way of adding substantial passive income to your portfolio.

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Private Equity Wire

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

PARTNER CONTENT By Lou Gueroeva Private Equity Business Development Lead, Zanders In the modern private equity (PE) landscape, there is a growing shift from traditional financial engineering towards operational value creation, with treasury and finance optimization becoming key drivers of sustainable returns. Treasury 4.x,

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Private Equity Wire

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

His practice focuses on advising private equity firms and other financial institutions on transactions including leveraged buyouts, venture and growth capital investments, joint-ventures and co-investments, opportunistic and distressed acquisitions, take-privates and carve-outs, across the investment lifespan through to exit.

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Global law firm Ropes & Gray has named 12 of its existing attorneys as the firm’s latest Partners, effective 1 November, including several whose practices cater for private equity and other private credit and private fund clients. She brings a deep understanding of technology and consumer brands.

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Private Equity Insights

MARCH 17, 2023

Lately, much attention has been lavished on Ares Capital, the unit created in 2004 to provide financing for middle-market acquisitions, recapitalizations, and leveraged buyouts. The Ares portfolio is diversified across 466 borrowers backed by 222 private equity sponsors that invest in those borrowers’ equity.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 24, 2024

Recently, however, the stock has been on an upswing, climbing nearly 62% from its low of $38 in this past October amid rumors of a potential buyout by a private equity firm. These factors seem to have made the company an attractive option for potential leveraged buyout by private equity companies.

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

Are Alternative Investments the Key to Diversifying Your Portfolio? If you prefer a more indirect approach, Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) allow you to invest in a portfolio of properties without the hassle of direct ownership.

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

Are Alternative Investments the Key to Diversifying Your Portfolio? If you prefer a more indirect approach, Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) allow you to invest in a portfolio of properties without the hassle of direct ownership.

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Pension Pulse

APRIL 25, 2024

Paula Sambo of Bloomberg reports Canada pension fund's credit head wants to take advantage of leveraged buyout boom: Canada’s largest pension fund plans to nearly double the size of its credit holdings over the next five years, and it’s counting on an upturn in leveraged buyouts to generate some of that growth.

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Udu

MAY 31, 2023

While managing current portfolios and engaging with investors can eat up the majority of a firm’s time, it’s equally important to stay up-to-date on private equity industry trends. In recent years, there has been a dramatic shift in the state of private equity.

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Oakhill

MAY 4, 2023

About Oak Hill Capital Oak Hill is a longstanding private equity firm focused on the North America middle-market. SCP provides public and private companies with capital for purposes of growth, recapitalization, and leveraged buyouts. For more information, please visit www.litcommunities.net. Stephens Inc.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

They’re one of the older private equity firms around, been been in business since 1994. 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 now we call it the private equity industry.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 11, 2024

And the use of PIK and other forms of so-called “back leverage” makes it even more difficult to get a clear picture on the state of privately owned companies. The amount of distressed debt owed by portfolio businesses of the 50 biggest PE firms has climbed 18% since mid-March to $42.7

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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. Two, three years at a private equity firm.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

BARRY RITHOLTZ, HOST, MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest, his name is Steve Klinsky, and he has an absolutely storied history in the field of private equity. And what was interesting was the first leveraged buyout of a public company happened when I was in graduate school.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

I mean, if you’re buying debt in, in, you name it company at 20 cents to 60 cents, and they’re owned by, you know, marquee private equity firms, what’s gonna happen with that? So, so let’s talk about some of those legacy portfolio issues. It’s still in the double digits.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Our diversified portfolio remains resilient, and while we expect these challenging investing conditions to persist for the near term, we are confident that our active management strategy will continue to deliver positive long-term results for CPP contributors and beneficiaries,” said John Graham, President and CEO, CPP Investments.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The turnaround attempt isn't working out, and management has reportedly talked to private equity firm Sycamore about a leveraged buyout. The company recently announced layoffs and production pauses in Europe, and the company is developing a deep portfolio of electric vehicles. billion of long-term debt.

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Private Equity Wire

MARCH 6, 2025

Carlyle Group is aiming to accelerate the pace of initial public offerings (IPOs) and asset sales in 2025, targeting $4bn to $5bn in exits from its private equity portfolio, in line with last years divestments, according to a report by Reuters.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 10, 2024

This week on the podcast, another extra special guest, David Ru, is Chairman of Bay Pine, a fascinating private equity firm. They are not interested in simply flipping companies or buying firms, and then quickly selling them what they do. Much more involved than a consulting firm.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 20, 2023

The current book is called “These Are the Plunderers, How Private Equity Runs and Wrecks America” That’s a little bit of a sensationalistic headline. When we spoke, the focus and conversation really emphasizes the largest of the large private equity firms. And that’s why we’re focusing on them.

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 30, 2023

“A lot of the easy-money, lever-the-target deals are no longer possible,” said Oliver Scharping, a portfolio manager at Bantleon. Brookfield’s ascendance comes as some private equity firms struggle to complete buyouts amid shaky financing markets and rich price demands from sellers.

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 7, 2025

Industry leaders hope to revive and expand a deregulatory effort from Donald Trumps first term, which allowed private equity investments to be included in professionally managed retirement accounts like target-date funds. It doesnt seem smart.

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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. It was like 13 out of 13 in the GE portfolio.

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