Showing posts with label private equity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label private equity. Show all posts

Friday, May 25, 2007

Disturbing News From Wall Street

Disturbing to me anyway. What Happens on Wall Street stays on Wall Street? (Unless you are one of the poor folks harmed by non-transparent financial systems and don't know where to trace it back to...)

From the WSJ:


Goldman Sachs Group Inc. ranks as the most profitable securities firm on Wall Street -- reflecting its mastery of trading on the world's public markets.

Now Goldman is turning that franchise on its head, creating its own private system to trade the stocks of companies that don't want the scrutiny and regulatory burdens of going public.

The new system, GS TRuE -- short for Goldman Sachs Tradable Unregistered Equity -- was announced two weeks ago and made its debut on Monday with an $880 million sale of a 15% stake in Oaktree Capital Management LLC, an alternative-investment manager.

Monday, November 20, 2006

Private Investment Funds begin

to really gather steam. This is no longer a phenomenon of microclimates. Here's a snippet from Le Monde today.

350 MILLIARDS D'EUROS.

C'est le montant total dont les fonds d'investissement disposent aujourd'hui pour investir dans le monde. En Europe, ils ont collecté 72 milliards d'euros en 2005 auprès de fonds de pension et de grandes fortunes. Depuis quatre ans, ces acteurs sont présents dans une acquisition d'entreprise sur quatre ou cinq.

3 600 SOCIÉTÉS.

C'est le nombre estimé d'entreprises françaises contrôlées par des fonds d'investissement (soit 6 % de l'effectif salarié du privé) en 2004, selon l'Association française des investisseurs en capital (AFIC).

DEUX-TIERS.

C'est ce que pèse la dette dans un rachat avec un montage en "Leverage buy out" (LBO). Les fonds n'apportent qu'un tiers de capital propre.

It's hard to say, but at some point this could put our stock markets into question, at least marginally. Something to watch, like youtube.